Lamellibrachia columna
a Ventral (top) and dorsal (bottom) anterior of two L. columna specimens (scale bar represents 10 mm).
b Ventral anterior of L. columna (scale bar represents 5 mm).
c Dorsal anterior of L. columna
d L. columna tube anterior[2]
Lamellibrachia columna is a vestimentiferan tube worm from the South Pacific Ocean that has been shown to be very closely related genetically to Lamellibrachia satsuma found in Japanese waters.[2]
References
- ^ Southward, EC. (1991). "Three new species of Pogonophora, including two vestimentiferans, from hydrothermal sites in the Lau Back-Arc Basin(Southwest Pacific Ocean)". Journal of Natural History. 25 (4): 859–81. doi:10.1080/00222939100770571.
- ^ a b McCowin, M.F.; Rowden, A.A.; Rouse, G.W. (2019). "A new record of Lamellibrachia columna (Siboglinidae, Annelida) from cold seeps off New Zealand, and an assessment of its presence in the western Pacific Ocean" (PDF). Marine Biodiversity Records. 12 (10). doi:10.1186/s41200-019-0169-2. S2CID 195150404.