Gardiner, Stephen L.; Hourdez, Stephane. (2003). On the occurrence of the vestimentiferan tube worm Lamellibrachia luymesi van der Land and Norrevang, 1975 (Annelida: Pogonophora) in hydrocarbon seep communities in the Gulf of Mexico. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 116(2):380-394.

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Gardiner, Stephen L.; Hourdez, Stephane

2003

116(2):380-394

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http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34565254

Lamellibrachia luymesi van der Land & Norrevang, 1975 is recorded from shallow-water hydrocarbon seep communities along the Louisiana slope in the Gulf of Mexico. It is typically the most abundant tube worm species in these shallow-water communities, sometimes with individuals occurring in aggregations numbering in the thousands. Tubes extend deeply into the sediment, and apical portions may project above the sea floor a distance of one meter or greater. This study documents intraspecific variation for a number of important morphological features of L. luymesi, such as the number of sheath lamellae, the number of branchial lamellae, the length and width of the obturaculum and vestimentum, the ratio of obturacular length to vestimental length, the ratio of vestimental diameter to vestimental length, and features of the tube. Comparisons of these features are made with other species of Lamellibrachia. The record of L. luymesi on the Louisiana slope extends the geographic range of this species from the southern North Atlantic Ocean into the northern Gulf of Mexico

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