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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.
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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 ...
And tube worms were observed living several centimeters deep within the cracks of the seafloor near vents, but the study team wasn’t sure how tiny tube worm larvae, less than 0.04 inch (1 ...
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.
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
Deep in the Gulf of California, scientists have discovered a fantastical expanse of hydrothermal vents, full of crystallized gases, glimmering pools of piping-hot fluids and rainbow-hued life ...
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.