WoRMS taxon details
Gigantidas Cosel & B. A. Marshall, 2003
391122 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:391122)
accepted
Genus
Gigantidas gladius Cosel & B. A. Marshall, 2003 (type by original designation)
- Species Gigantidas childressi (Gustafson, R. D. Turner, Lutz & Vrijenhoek, 1998)
- Species Gigantidas gladius Cosel & B. A. Marshall, 2003
- Species Gigantidas haimaensis T. Xu, D. Feng, J. Tao & J.-W. Qiu, 2019
- Species Gigantidas horikoshii Hashimoto & Yamane, 2005
- Species Gigantidas mauritanicus (Cosel, 2002)
- Species Gigantidas niobengalensis P. G. Oliver, Gonsalves, Samuel & Garzia, 2024
- Species Gigantidas platifrons (Hashimoto & Okutani, 1994)
- Species Gigantidas samario Cosel & Gracia, 2018
- Species Gigantidas taiwanensis (Cosel, 2008)
- Species Gigantidas tangaroa (Cosel & B. A. Marshall, 2003)
- Species Gigantidas vrijenhoeki S.-J. Jang, P.-T. Ho, S.-Y. Jun, D. Kim & Y.-J. Won, 2020
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Cosel, R. von & Marshall, B. A. (2003). Two new species of large mussels (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) from active submarine volcanoes and a cold seep off the eastern North Island of New Zealand, with description of a new genus. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 117 (2): 31-46., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8525347
page(s): 37 [details]
page(s): 37 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Gigantidas Cosel & B. A. Marshall, 2003. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391122 on 2025-05-08
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Nomenclature
original description
Cosel, R. von & Marshall, B. A. (2003). Two new species of large mussels (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) from active submarine volcanoes and a cold seep off the eastern North Island of New Zealand, with description of a new genus. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 117 (2): 31-46., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8525347
page(s): 37 [details]
page(s): 37 [details]
Other
additional source
Thubaut, J., Puillandre, N., Faure, B., Cruaud, C. & Samadi, S. (2013). The contrasted evolutionary fates of deep-sea chemosynthetic mussels (Bivalvia, Bathymodiolinae). <em>Ecology and Evolution.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.749 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
