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Science 17 July 1981:
Vol. 213. no. 4505, pp. 333 - 336
DOI: 10.1126/science.213.4505.333
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Riftia pachyptila Jones: Observations on the Vestimentiferan Worm from the Galápagos Rift

MEREDITH L. JONES 1

1 Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560

The obturacular plume, composed of numerous tentacles, is suggested as a site for the uptake of molecular "food" by Riftia pachyptila (Pogonophora) from the Galápagos Rift; symbiotic bacteria are another possible source of nutrition. Differing organizations of the linings of the five major body cavities of Riftia demonstrate the inadequacy of "coelom" as a descriptive term.

Submitted on September 11, 1980
Revised on February 19, 1981


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