Bathymodiolus

Bathymodiolus
Bathymodiolus childressi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Mytilida
Family: Modiolidae
Genus: Bathymodiolus
Kenk & Wilson, 1985
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Bathymodiolus is a genus of deep-sea mussels, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mytilidae. Many of them contain intracellular chemoautotrophic bacterial symbionts.

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