Tamu

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Mytiloidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Spiralia Cladus: Lophotrochozoa Phylum: Mollusca Classis: Bivalvia Subclassis: Pteriomorphia Ordo: Mytilida Superfamilia: Mytiloidea

Familia: Mytilidae
Subfamilia: Modiolinae
Genus: Tamu
Species: T. fisheri

Name

• Tamu Gustafson, Turner, Lutz & Vrijenhoek, 1998
  • Original status: valid genus [source: Gustafson, Turner, Lutz & Vrijenhoek (1998: 90)]
  • Gender: masculine?
  • Type species: Tamu fisheri Gustafson, Turner, Lutz & Vrijenhoek, 1998, by original designation [and monotypy] [source: Gustafson, Turner, Lutz & Vrijenhoek (1998: 90)]

References

cited sources

• 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: 63–112. Internet Archive BHL

Additional references

• Saether, K.P. et al. 2010: New fossil mussels (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) from Miocene hydrocarbon seep deposits, North Island, New Zealand, with general remarks on vent and seep mussels. Zootaxa, 2577: 1–45. Preview PDF

Links

• ION
• Nomenclator Zoologicus