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Riftia pachyptila, commonly known as the giant tube worm and less commonly known as the giant beardworm, is a marine invertebrate in the phylum Annelida [1] (formerly grouped in phylum Pogonophora and Vestimentifera) related to tube worms commonly found in the intertidal and pelagic zones.
The deep-sea worm Tenvia jerichoana is closely related to the deep-sea worm Riftia pachyptila. [7] They both rely exclusively on a single species of sulfide-oxidizing endosymbiotic bacteria for their nutrients. [8] However, they do thrive in different geochemical conditions.
Lamellibrachia is a genus of tube worms related to the giant tube worm, Riftia pachyptila.They live at deep-sea cold seeps where hydrocarbons (oil and methane) leak out of the seafloor, and are entirely reliant on internal, sulfide-oxidizing bacterial symbionts for their nutrition.
A whole new world: Surprising ecosystem thriving under sea floor. The study authors found the tubeworms and other species living in warm, fluid-filled cavities more than 2,500 meters, or 1.5 miles ...
Siboglinidae is a family of polychaete annelid worms whose members made up the former phyla Pogonophora and Vestimentifera (the giant tube worms). [1] [2] The family is composed of around 100 species of vermiform creatures which live in thin tubes buried in sediment (Pogonophora) or in tubes attached to hard substratum (Vestimentifera) at ocean depths ranging from 100 to 10,000 m (300 to ...
It was found to house bacterial symbiotes in Riftia. [7] Like other tube worms, they lack a digestive tract. [8] In order to survive, it holds endosymbiotic bacteria that supply the worm with nutrients. The bacteria nourishes the worm by oxidizing sulfur from its surrounding environment, with one methanotrophic exception being Siboglinum ...
A trophosome is a highly vascularised organ found in some animals that houses symbiotic bacteria that provide food for their host. Trophosomes are contained by the coelom of tube worms (family Siboglinidae, e.g. the giant tube worm Riftia pachyptila) [1] and in the body of symbiotic flatworms of the genus Paracatenula.
Riftia pachyptila, a species known as giant tube worms [1] Lamellibrachia, a genus; Serpulidae, a family; Sabellidae, the family containing feather duster worms; Phoronida, the phylum containing horseshoe worms; Microconchida, an order of extinct tubeworms; Kuphus polythalamia, a bivalve mollusk species whose common name is giant tube worm