Bathymodiolinae
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Subfamily Bathymodiolinae Kenk and Wilson, 1985
Discussion. Vent and seep mussels of the genera Bathymodiolus, Gigantidas and Tamu traditionally have been referred to a subfamily Bathymodiolinae Kenk and Wilson, 1985 (e.g. Cosel and Janssen 2008), although as indicated by Samadi et al. (2007), on molecular evidence the group is “robustly rooted within a monophyletic group that includes the species Modiolus modiolus...”, i.e. subfamily Modiolinae Keen, 1958. Thus, Bathymodiolinae would appear to be a grade of Modiolinae comprising several clades, each probably independently derived from small wood-associated ancestors (Distel 2000; Fujita et al. 2009). Re-evaluation of the higher classification of mytilids is not our intention, and we consider it appropriate and convenient to refer to these mussels as bathymodiolines.
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References
- Kenk, V. C. & Wilson, B. R. (1985) A new mussel (Bivalvia, Mytilidae) from hydrothermal vents in the Galapagos Rift zone. Malacologia, 26, 253 - 271.
- Cosel, R. von & Janssen, R. (2008) Bathymodioline mussels of the Bathymodiolus (s. l.) childressi clade from methane seeps near Edison Seamount, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea (Bivalvia: Mytilidae). Archiv fur Molluskenkunde, 137, 195 - 224.
- Samadi, S., Quemere, E., Lorion, J., Tillier, A., Cosel, R. von, Lopez, P., Cruaud, C., Couloux, A. & Boisselier-Dubayle, M. - C. (2007) Molecular phylogeny in mytilids supports the wooden steps to deep-sea vents hypothesis. Comptes Rendus Biologies, 330, 446 - 456.
- Keen, A. M. (1958) Marine shells of tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 624 pp.
- Distel, D., Baco, A. R., Chuang, E., Morrill, W., Cavanaugh, C. & Smith, C. R. (2000) Do mussels take wooden steps to deep-sea vents? Nature, 403, 725 - 726.
- Fujita, Y., Matsumoto, H., Fujiwara, Y., Hashimoto, J., Galkin, S. V., Ueshima, R. & Miyazaki, J. - I. (2009) Phylogenetic relationships of deep-sea Bathymodiolus mussels to their mytilid relatives from sunken whale carcasses and wood. Venus, 67, 123 - 134.