... fields, although the abundance of animals is low compared to MOR vents. Vent crabs (Bythograeidae), vent shrimp (unknown species), and rare polychaete worms (Alvinellidae) occur at the highest temperature vents. Clumps of vent worms (Siboglinidae) and two types of vent-associated mussels (live...

..., but a substantial proportion of these tubes are poorly described in the literature and/or have few diagnostic characters. These tube building marine taxa include a number of polychaete families at vent sites [e.g., Siboglinidae, Alvinellidae Desbruyères and Laubier, 1986 ; Serpulidae Johnston, 1865...

.... 2002 . Sister-species of eastern Pacific hydrothermal vent worms (Ampharetidae, Alvinellidae, Vestimentifera) provide new mitochondrial COI clock calibration . Cahiers de Biologie Marine, Brest , 43 : 367 – 370 . Cody G. D...