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Alvinella pompejana
Species of annelid worm / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alvinella pompejana, the Pompeii worm, is a species of deep-sea polychaete worm (commonly referred to as "bristle worms"). It is an extremophile found only at hydrothermal vents in the Pacific Ocean, discovered in the early 1980s off the Galápagos Islands by French marine biologists.
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Alvinella pompejana | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Annelida |
Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
Clade: | Sedentaria |
Order: | Terebellida |
Family: | Alvinellidae |
Genus: | Alvinella |
Species: | A. pompejana |
Binomial name | |
Alvinella pompejana Desbruyères and Laubier, 1980 | |
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