Gigantidas

Gigantidas
	Gigantidas tangaroa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Mytilida
Family:	Mytilidae
Genus:	Gigantidas; Cosel & B. A. Marshall, 2003
Species
	See text

Gigantidas is a genus of large, deepwater, hydrothermal vent mussels, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mytilidae.

Distribution and habitat

Species in this genus are found on deep-sea hydrothermal vents on the southern Kermadec Ridge. These mussels form dense beds at these sites.

The shells of Gigantidas gladius are up to 30 cm long.

Species within the genus Gigantidas include^[1]:

Gigantidas childressi Gustafson, R. D. Turner, Lutz & Vrijenhoek, 1998
Gigantidas coseli Saether, Little, Campbell, Marshall, Collins & Alfaro, 2010
Gigantidas gladius Cosel & Marshall, 2003
Gigantidas haimaensis T. Xu, D. Feng, J. Tao & J.-W. Qiu, 2019
Gigantidas horikoshii Hashimoto & Yamane, 2005
Gigantidas mauritanicus Cosel, 2002
Gigantidas niobengalensis P. G. Oliver, Gonsalves, Samuel & Garzia, 2024
Gigantidas platifrons J. Hashimoto & Okutani, 1994
Gigantidas samario Cosel & Gracia, 2018
Gigantidas taiwanensis Cosel, 2008
Gigantidas tangaroa Cosel & B. A. Marshall, 2003
Gigantidas vrijenhoeki S.-J. Jang, P.-T. Ho, S.-Y. Jun, D. Kim & Y.-J. Won, 2020

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. The Nautilus 117(2): 31-46