FIGURE 15 in New fossil mussels (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) from Miocene hydrocarbon seep deposits, North Island, New Zealand, with general remarks on vent and seep mussels

FIGURE 15. Graphs showing ontogenetic changes in shell height/length ratio vs. shell length in specimens of Bathymodiolus heretaunga sp. nov. and its modern congeners. A. Scatter plot of raw data. Closed symbols represent species in the B. tangaroa group; open symbols are used for other species of the B. childressi clade. B. Lines of best fit to show growth curves.: B. anteumbonatus Cosel and Janssen, 2008 (an);: B. childressi Gustafson, Turner, Lutz and Vrijenhoek, 1998 (ch);: B. edisonensis Cosel and Janssen, 2008 (ed);: B. heretaunga (hg);: B. hirtus Okutani, Fujikura and Sasaki, 2004 (ht);: B. japonicus Hashimoto and Okutani, 1994 (jp);: B. mauritanicus Cosel, 2002 (mr);: B. platifrons Hashimoto and Okutani, 1994 (pl); —: B. securiformis Okutani, Fujikura and Sasaki, 2004 (sf);: B. taiwanensis Cosel, 2008a (tw);: B. tangaroa tangaroa Cosel and B. Marshall, 2003 (tta);: B. tangaroa tuerkayi Cosel and Janssen, 2008 (ttu).