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    Riftia pachyptila, commonly known as the giant tube worm and less commonly known as the giant beardworm, is a marine invertebrate in the phylum Annelida...
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    coelom of tube worms (family Siboglinidae, e.g. the giant tube worm Riftia pachyptila) and in the body of symbiotic flatworms of the genus Paracatenula...
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    occurrences and uses of hemoglobin in organisms is in the giant tube worm (Riftia pachyptila, also called Vestimentifera), which can reach 2.4 meters length and...
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  • annelids or fan-head worms Siboglinidae, the family of beard worms Riftia pachyptila, a species known as giant tube worms Lamellibrachia, a genus Serpulidae...
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    other tube worms, vestimentiferans are benthic marine creatures. Riftia pachyptila, a vestimentiferan, is known only from the hydrothermal vent systems...
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    them to a specialized hemoglobin molecule. Unlike the tube worms Riftia pachyptila that live at hydrothermal vents, L. luymesi uses a posterior extension...
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    have a similar role in influencing the size of giant tube worms. Riftia pachyptila, which lives in hydrothermal vent communities at ambient temperatures...
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    ; et al. (1981). "Prokaryotic Cells in the Hydrothermal Vent Tube Worms Riftia Jones: Possible Chemoautotrophic Symbionts". Science. 213 (4505): 340–342...
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  • found around volcanic vents. For example, there are giant tube worms (Riftia pachyptila) 1.5 m in length and clams (Calyptogena magnifica) 30 cm long. Heterotrophic...
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    Stewart and C. M. (2006). "Symbiosis of Thioautotrophic Bacteria with Riftia pachyptila | EndNote Click". Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology. 41:...
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