Gigantidas horikoshi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Mytilida
Family:	Mytilidae
Genus:	Gigantidas
Species:	G. horikoshi
Binomial name
Gigantidas horikoshi Hashimoto & Yamane, 2005

Gigantidas horikoshi is a species of large, deepwater, hydrothermal vent mussel, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Mytilidae, the mussels.

Shell size 160-170 mm.

694 m. depth: Sumisu Caldera hydrothermal vent field
(31°28.2113'N, 140°4.2833'E), Izu Islands arc, Japan.

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