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Benthomodiolus geikotsucola Okutani & Miyazaki, 2007 
AphiaID: 457978

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Mytiloida (Order) > Mytiloidea (Superfamily) > Mytilidae (Family) > Benthomodiolus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Benthomodiolus Dell, 1987
Sources  original description: Okutani T. & Miyazaki J.-I. (2007). Benthomodiolus geikotsucola n. sp.: A mussel colonizing deep-sea whale bones in the Northwest Pacific (Bivalvia: Mytilidae). Venus 66(1-2):49-55. [details]

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

Environment marine
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:457978
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2010-02-12 14:16:04Z  created  Tran, Bastien
2010-10-18 15:29:19Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Benthomodiolus geikotsucola Okutani & Miyazaki, 2007. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=457978 on 2013-05-24
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