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Hashimoto, Jun; Okutani, Takashi. (1994). Four new mytilid mussels associated with deepsea chemosynthetic communities around Japan. Venus. 53(2): 61-83.
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Hashimoto, Jun; Okutani, Takashi
1994
Four new mytilid mussels associated with deepsea chemosynthetic communities around Japan
Venus
53(2): 61-83
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Four new species of Bathymodiolus, B. platifrons n. sp., B. japonicus n. sp., B. aduloides n. sp., and B. septemdierum n. sp., are described from materials collected at hydrothermal vent and cold seep sites around Japan. These deepsea mussels have extremely thick and large ctenidia with long demibranchs. In addition, these new species have no extreme mantle fusion which restricts the incurrent aperture to a short byssal-pedal gape in the ventral mid-region, the typical feature of the genus Bathymodiolus Kenk and Wilson, 1985.
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Bathymodiolus aduloides Hashimoto & Okutani, 1994 (original description)
Bathymodiolus japonicus Hashimoto & Okutani, 1994 (original description)
Bathymodiolus platifrons Hashimoto & Okutani, 1994 accepted as Gigantidas platifrons (Hashimoto & Okutani, 1994) (original description)
Bathymodiolus septemdierum Hashimoto & Okutani, 1994 (original description)
Bathymodiolus japonicus Hashimoto & Okutani, 1994 (original description)
Bathymodiolus platifrons Hashimoto & Okutani, 1994 accepted as Gigantidas platifrons (Hashimoto & Okutani, 1994) (original description)
Bathymodiolus septemdierum Hashimoto & Okutani, 1994 (original description)
