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2. Riftia - Wikipedia

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   These worms can reach a length of 3 m (9 ft 10 in), [3] and their tubular bodies have a diameter of 4 cm (1.6 in). Its common name "giant tube worm" is, however, also applied to the largest living species of shipworm, Kuphus polythalamius, which despite the name "worm", is a bivalve mollusc rather than an annelid.

3. Tube worm - Wikipedia

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   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

4. Lamellibrachia satsuma - Wikipedia

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   Lamellibrachia satsuma removed from its tube: ves = vestimentum, op = opisthosome, ten = tentacular region, tr = trunk. Lamellibrachia satsuma (also known as Satsuma tubeworm or Satsumahaorimushi or Satsuma Haorimushi (サツマハオリムシ)) is a vestimentiferan tube worm that was discovered near a hydrothermal vent in Kagoshima Bay, Kagoshima at the depth of only 82 m (269 ft) the ...

5. Scientists make surprise discovery of life in the seafloor’s ...

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   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 ...

6. Siboglinidae - Wikipedia

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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 ...

7. Lamellibrachia - Wikipedia

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   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.