Tubeworms
Image courtesy of NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Gulf of Mexico 2017.
A dense cluster of
Escarpia sp. chemosynthetic tubeworms at a cold seep, accompanied by an
Alvinocaris sp. shrimp and a chaetopterid polychaete waving its pair of feeding palps from its slender bamboo-like tube.
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