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Title: Tubeworms and Palm worms
Author: David Randle
Category: BIO
Data Source: Jason Flores
File Size: 494 kb
File Type: Image (JPG or GIF)
Date Catalogued:
Saturday, September 24, 2005
Tubeworms (Ridgeia piscesae) and palm worms (Paralvinella palmiformis) live in the warm water that diffues out of the sulfide chimneys. The hydrogen sulfide in the hydrothermal fluid supports microbes that feed these organisms.