@article{oai:kanazawa-u.repo.nii.ac.jp:00060883, author = {佐藤, 圭 and 佐々木, 猛智 and 渡部, 裕美 and Sato, Kei and Sasaki, Takenori and Watanabe, Hiromi}, issue = {3}, journal = {Nautilus, The Pilsbry quarterly devoted to the interests of concholosist}, month = {Sep}, note = {A new species, Solemya (Solemya) flava, is described from a hydrothermal vent field located in the Iheya Ridge in the mid Okinawa Trough, Japan. The small-sized new species is characterized by (1) a branched internal ligament attached to the chondrophore, (2) a bright yellowish brown periostracum, and (3) relatively short shell length relative to height (length/height = ca. 2.2) for solemyid bivalves. This species is associated with a vesicomyid clam, Calyptogena okutanii Kojima and Ohta, 1997, which is dominant in chemosynthetic environments., 金沢大学国際基幹教育院 GS教育系}, pages = {93--100}, title = {A new species of Solemna (Bivalvia: Protobranchia: Solemyidae) from a hydrothermal vent in the Iheya Ridge in the mid-Okinawa Trough, Japan}, volume = {127}, year = {2013} }