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Description
Tiny tubes built as housing by serpulid tube-worms were clustered in asmall forest-like grove on one of the rocks collected. These tubes are about aquarter inch long and are shown here as viewed through a dissectingmicroscope on board the ship.
Credit
Islands in the Stream Expedition 2002. NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration
Photographer
Leslie Sauter
Location
South Atlantic Bight, Southeast United States
Collection
Voyage to Inner Space
Ocean Exploration Collection
Modern Expeditions
Atlantic Shelf and Slope
NOAA Affiliation
College of Charleston
Keywords
Ocean Exploration
Invertebrates
Tube worms