Siboglinidae

Description

General: Contain chemosynthetic bacterial symbionts within their bodies that convert energy from sulphide- and methane-rich waters, supplying nutrition to the host worm.

Geographic Information

Habitat description: Benthic. Cold seep and hydrothermal vent communities.

Additional Information

References

Encyclopedia of Life

Tree of Life

World Register of Marine Species

National Center for Biotechnology Information

Barry, J.P., H.G. Greene, D.L. Orange, C.H. Baxter, B.H. Robison, R.E. Kochevar, J.W. Nybakken, D.L. R, and C.M. McHugh (1996). Biologic and geologic characteristics of cold seeps in Monterey Bay, California. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 43: 1739-1762. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0967-0637(96)00075-1

Rouse, G.W. (2001). A cladistic analysis of Siboglinidae Caullery, 1914 (Polychaeta, Annelida): formerly the phyla Pogonophora and Vestimentifera. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 132: 55-80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2001.tb02271.x