Bysally attached to sulfur blocks immediately around diffuse venting of water. Endemic to vents. Development unknown, most probably with long planktonic larval phase.

Mid-Atlantic Ridge: TAG, Snake Pit and Logatchev.

Shell oval-wedge shaped, rather stout, beaks subterminal. Ventral margin straight to very weakly convex. Postero- dorsal margin markedly convex. Ligament plate slightly arched in anterior part, straighter in posterior part. Exterior smooth, with pronounced irregular growth lines. Periostracum dark brown and rather glossy. Anterior byssus retractor scar on anterior part of the umbonal cavity, in front of the beaks. Anterior part of posterior byssus retractor muscle scar under the posterior third of the ligament, near the end. Animal with large gills. Mantle lobes on anterior half of ventral side separate. Valvular siphonal membrane short.

Shell length up to 141 mm.

Paratype for Bathymodiolus puteoserpentis Von Cosel et al., 1994
Catalog Number: USNM 882204
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology
Preparation: Dry
Collector(s): J. Karson
Year Collected: 1988
Locality: Mid-Atlantic Ridge, L'Elan (The Moose) Site, Snake Pit Hydrothermal Field, North Atlantic Ocean
Depth (m): 3515 to 3515
Vessel: Nautile DSR/V

Depth range based on 6 specimens in 1 taxon.
Water temperature and chemistry ranges based on 6 samples.

Environmental ranges
  Depth range (m): 3050 - 3650
  Temperature range (°C): 2.523 - 2.889
  Nitrate (umol/L): 21.028 - 22.153
  Salinity (PPS): 34.913 - 34.944
  Oxygen (ml/l): 5.657 - 5.742
  Phosphate (umol/l): 1.396 - 1.496
  Silicate (umol/l): 34.435 - 42.727

Graphical representation

Depth range (m): 3050 - 3650

Temperature range (°C): 2.523 - 2.889

Nitrate (umol/L): 21.028 - 22.153

Salinity (PPS): 34.913 - 34.944

Oxygen (ml/l): 5.657 - 5.742

Phosphate (umol/l): 1.396 - 1.496

Silicate (umol/l): 34.435 - 42.727
 
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