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An outcrop in a cold seep area with lamellibrachian tube worms with red tips and smaller tube worms with feeding tentacles extended

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Description

An outcrop in a cold seep area with lamellibrachian tube worms with red tips and smaller tube worms with feeding tentacles extended. A large globular pencilurchin is seen to the bottom right, gray and white bacterial mat stainings onthe sediment, and Lophelia pertusa oral on top of outcrop.

Credit

Lophelia II

Display Date

2008 September 29 1837

Collection

Voyage to Inner Space

Ocean Exploration Collection

Modern Expeditions

Lophelia II Expeditions