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Bathymodiolus childressi Gustafson, Turner, Lutz & Vrijenhoek, 1998 
AphiaID: 420692

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Mytiloida (Order) > Mytiloidea (Superfamily) > Mytilidae (Family) > Bathymodiolus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Bathymodiolus Kenk & B. R. Wilson, 1985
Sources  original description: Gustafson R.G., Turner R.D., Lutz R.A. & Vrijenhoek R.C. 1998. A new genus and five new species of mussels (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) from deep-sea sulfide/hydrocarbon seeps in the Gulf of Mexico. Malacologia 40(1-2): 63-112., available online at http://www.archive.org/details/malacologia401998inst [details]

basis of record: Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, Colleg [details]

basis of record: Huber M. (2010) Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world’s marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.  [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Distribution Gulf of Mexico [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (9 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (46 nucleotides; 23 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Image 
Bathymodiolus childressi
Bathymodiolus childressi
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:420692
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2009-10-06 12:38:14Z  created  db_admin
2010-09-23 10:34:21Z  changed  Huber, Markus
  
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  Citation: Huber, M. (2013). Bathymodiolus childressi Gustafson, Turner, Lutz & Vrijenhoek, 1998. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=420692 on 2013-05-24
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