WoRMS taxon details
Vesicomya kaikoae Okutani, Fujikura & Kojima, 2000
457994 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:457994)
accepted
Species
Isorropodon kaikoae (Okutani, Fujikura & Kojima, 2000) · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Note Tenryu Submarine Canyon cold seep in the...
Type locality Tenryu Submarine Canyon cold seep in the Nankai Trough (33°36.3′N, 137°32.3′E); 3,760 m deep. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Vesicomya kaikoae Okutani, Fujikura & Kojima, 2000. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=457994 on 2026-10-05
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Nomenclature
original description
Okutani T., Fujikura K. & Kojima S. (2000). New taxa and review of vesicomyid bivalves collected from the northwest Pacific by deep-sea research systems of Japan Marine Science & Technology Center. <i>Venus</i> 59(2): 83-101 [details] Available for editors 
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basis of record Amano, K. & Chen, C. (2026). Two vesicomyid species from cold seeps in the Nankai Trough and Sagami Bay, including a new species of <i>Isorropodon</i>. <em>Venus.</em> 84(1–4): 63–74., available online at https://doi.org/10.18941/venus.84.1-4_63
page(s): 67, figs 3A–J, 4A–F [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Huber, M. (2010). <i>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</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]
[request]basis of record Amano, K. & Chen, C. (2026). Two vesicomyid species from cold seeps in the Nankai Trough and Sagami Bay, including a new species of <i>Isorropodon</i>. <em>Venus.</em> 84(1–4): 63–74., available online at https://doi.org/10.18941/venus.84.1-4_63
page(s): 67, figs 3A–J, 4A–F [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Huber, M. (2010). <i>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</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Gao, K.; He, X.; Wang, H.; Chen, C.; Gu, X.; Lai, Q.; Perez, M.; Kojima, S.; Amano, K.; Sun, J. (2025). Phylogenomic analyses of Pliocardiinae (Bivalvia: Vesicomyidae) update genus‐level taxonomy and shed light on trait evolution. <em>Cladistics.</em> 41: 372–387., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.70001
page(s): 10 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 10 [details] Available for editors
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context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Fujikura, K.; Kojima, S.; Fujiwara, Y.; Hashimoto, J.; Okutani, T. (2000). New Distribution Records of Vesicomyid Bivalves from Deep-sea Chemosynthesis-based Communities in Japanese Waters. <em>Venus (Journal of the Malacological Society of Japan).</em> 59 (2): 103-121. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Fujikura, K.; Kojima, S.; Fujiwara, Y.; Hashimoto, J.; Okutani, T. (2000). New Distribution Records of Vesicomyid Bivalves from Deep-sea Chemosynthesis-based Communities in Japanese Waters. <em>Venus (Journal of the Malacological Society of Japan).</em> 59 (2): 103-121. [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Type locality Tenryu Submarine Canyon cold seep in the Nankai Trough (33°36.3′N, 137°32.3′E); 3,760 m deep. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | カイコウオトヒメハマグリ | [details] |
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Isorropodon kaikoae) (from synonym Isorropodon kaikoae (Okutani, Fujikura & Kojima, 2000))
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Isorropodon kaikoae (Okutani, Fujikura & Kojima, 2000))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Isorropodon kaikoae) (from synonym Isorropodon kaikoae (Okutani, Fujikura & Kojima, 2000))
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Isorropodon kaikoae (Okutani, Fujikura & Kojima, 2000))
