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BACTERIA, UNKNOWN
ANIMALS and WORMS
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| A. OREGON BATHYAL AND ABYSSAL: WORMS, UNKNOWNS: (a) = abyssal plain (2850m), (ob) = continental slope (1800-2000m) off Newport, Oregon |
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B. METHANE SEEPS: MICROBES, WORMS, UNKNOWNS on Calif. Eel-River Seeps off Eureka (510-525m) and Hydrate Ridge off Newport Oregon (600-890m); submersible video and microscope images |
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| Beggiatoa (and other species
of) bacteria in mats and filaments** --microbes using sulfide and methane (Eel River, Hydrate Ridge) |
Worm (new species?) living inside large carbonate rock
formed by bacterial metabolism with methane
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Seep worm
| Acorn worms* (60x) found in mud near methane vent |
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| Polychaete worms, including Dorvelleids, living off seep bacteria |
Cold-seep vestimentiferan(b) Lamellibrachia (lives
off bacterial symbionts that live off gases); see SEEPS/VENTS
page for more on these and on hydrothermal-vent worms
| Eggsac of an unknown animal | Unidentified greenish bushy thing* |