Giant tubeworm
SKU 294341 Categories Deep-sea Animals, Deep-sea Invertebrates, Hydrothermal Vent Animals Tags blue, Comb jelly, Ctenophora, Cydippida, New Zealand, plankton, Pleurobranchiidae, Pleurochachia pileus, predator, sea gooseberry, tentacles, Tentaculata, transparent
Image ID: | 29440 |
Common Name: | Giant tubeworm |
Scientific Name: | Tevnia jerichonana |
Description: | These rusty vent tubeworms (Tevnia jerichonana) have been stained orange by iron compounds emanating from black smoker chimneys. |
Location: | Hydrothermal Vents, Equatorial Pacific |
Keywords: | Tevnia jerichonana, giant tubeworm, symbiotic bacteria, hydrothermal vent tubeworm, Annelida, Pogonophora, Tevniida, Tevniidae, orange |
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