| Image ID: | 29527 |
| Common Name: | Deep-sea Pompeii Worm |
| Scientific Name: | Alvinella pompejana |
| Description: | A pompeii worm in its papery tube. Many such tubes form honeycomb-like structures near the tips of black smoker chimneys in the deep sea., ” Peter Batson Deep-sea invertebrates, Hydrothermal vent animals. |
| Location: | Hydrothermal Vents, Equatorial Pacific |
| Keywords: | Alvinella, Alvinella caudata, annelid, deep-sea pompeii worm, hydrothermal vent worm, black smoker worm, tube-worm, extreme temperature, bacterial symbionts |
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