A new genus and five new species of mussels (Bivalvia, Mytilidae) from deep-sea sulfide/hydrocarbon seeps in the Gulf of Mexico

Malacologia

Volumn 40, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 63-112

  Gustafson, Richard G ^a,c   Turner, Ruth D ^b   Lutz, Richard A ^a   Vrijenhoek, Robert C ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bathymodiolinae; Deep sea; Hydrocarbon seeps; Mytilidae; Sulfide seeps

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032349484     PISSN: 00762997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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