Sentences with phrase «pacific tubeworms»
Whereas symbiosis is the norm for the Pacific tubeworms and bivalves, the Atlantic vent shrimp appear to scrape bacteria from the debris surrounding a vent.
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The vents have been colonized by dense communities of tubeworms and other animals unlike any other known vent communities in the in the eastern Pacific.
Where clams, mussels, and tubeworms dominate the vents of the Pacific, another group of organisms, the «blind» shrimp, dominate the vents of the mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Among the most remarkable species found near the vents were striking pale octopuses, yeti crabs, snails, and barnacles; absent were the tubeworms, vent crabs, mussels and shrimp commonly found near underwater vents in the Pacific.