Giant tubeworm
SKU 29487 Categories Hydrothermal Vent Animals, Deep-sea Invertebrates Tags blue, Comb jelly, Ctenophora, Cydippida, New Zealand, plankton, Pleurobranchiidae, Pleurochachia pileus, predator, sea gooseberry, tentacles, Tentaculata, transparent
| Image ID: | 29487 |
| Common Name: | Giant tubeworm |
| Scientific Name: | Riftia pachyptila |
| Description: | Two classic hydrothermal vent organisms together – a giant tubeworm, Riftia, in the foreground, with the vent mussel Bathymodiolus in the background. |
| Location: | Hydrothermal Vents, Equatorial Pacific |
| Keywords: | Riftia pachyptila, giant tubeworm, hydrothermal vent worm, symbiotic bacteria, red, Annelida, Pogonophera, Bathymodiolus, hydrothermal vent mussel |
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