Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Pteriomorphia > Order Mytilida > Superfamily Mytiloidea > Family Modiolidae

Bathymodiolinae Kenk & B. R. Wilson, 1985

Rank: Subfamily
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Adipicola Dautzenberg, 1927
Bathymodiolus Kenk & B. R. Wilson, 1985
Gigantidas Cosel & B. A. Marshall, 2003
Idas Jeffreys, 1876
Nypamodiolus Y.-T. Lin, Kiel, T. Xu & J.-W. Qiu, 2022

Literature

original description	Kenk V.C. & Wilson B.R. (1985). A new mussel (Bivalvia, Mytilidae) from hydrothermal vents, in the Galapagos Rift zone. Malacologia. 26(1-2): 253-271.
additional source	Thubaut, J., Puillandre, N., Faure, B., Cruaud, C. & Samadi, S. (2013). The contrasted evolutionary fates of deep-sea chemosynthetic mussels (Bivalvia, Bathymodiolinae). Ecology and Evolution.
additional source	Lorion, J.; Kiel, S.; Faure, B.; Kawato, M.; Ho, S. Y. M.; Marshall, B. A.; Tsuchida, S.; Miyazaki, J.-I. & Fujiwara, Y. (2013). Adaptive radiation of chemosymbiotic deep-sea mussels. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 280: 20131243 (9 pp).
redescription	Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Bathymodiolinae Kenk & B. R. Wilson, 1985. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:510719