Sentences with phrase «also tube worms»
Jericho worms are also tube worms, but much smaller and with circular concentric tubes.
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Its mechanical body sits inside a plastic tube reel that extends through pressurized inflation, a method that some invertebrates like peanut worms (Sipunculus nudus) also use to extend their appendages.
As a result, the shells they inhabit often show signs of wear and, as in this case, colonisation by other animals: on the left and right sides of the shell are anemones, with barnacles and tube worms also attached.
Some 75 kilometers away in the same gulf, vents within the Alarcon Rise also hosted masses of tube worms, only they were blood - red in color.
The colonization of tube worms also brings a group of organisms that live in and around the tubes.
Gray whales, as described by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), are stated to feed primarily on swarming mysids, commonly called opossum shrimps, tube - dwelling amphipods, and polychaete tube worms in the northern parts of their range, but are also known to take red crabs, baitfish, and other food (crab larvae, mobile amphipods, herring eggs and larvae, cephalopods, and megalops) opportunistically or off the main feeding grounds.