The Marine Deep Sea Zone - Cold Seep Communities
Information on organisms, particularly those in Monterey Bay, CA, associated with cold seeps.
http://bonita.mbnms.nos.noaa.gov/sitechar/cold.html
(Added: Sat Jul 14 2001)
- Hot Vents
Much text and interesting photos of hydrothermal vents and their associated fauna, taken by the submersible Alvin.
http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/hotvent.html
(Added: Sat Jul 14 2001)
- Introduction to the Pogonophora
The U.C. Berkeley site on the tubeworms which inhabit the hot vents.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/annelida/pogonophora.html
(Added: Sat Jul 14 2001)
- Life Without Light
A tour through the cold-seep habitats in the Gulf of Mexico. Interesting information and photographs of a different type of deep-sea habitat.
http://www.bio.psu.edu/People/Faculty/Fisher/cold_seeps/
(Added: Sat Jul 14 2001)
- Paul Yancey's Deep-Sea Page
Interesting links to research in deep oceanic habits, the organisms that live there, with newly updated discoveries.
http://people.whitman.edu/~yancey/deepsea.html
(Added: Sat Jul 14 2001)
Under Sea Tectonic and Volcanic Activity - Video Clips
This shows video highlights from NOAA/VENTS research activities including shots from the submersibles. Interesting videos of tubeworms, and other interesting organisms inhabiting the vent habitat.
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/geology/video.html
(Added: Sat Jul 14 2001)
A Living Trace Fossil? Two references Phylum Pogonophora - Pogonophora
Arizona's Tree of Life Web Page. Pictures, characteristics, phylogenetic relationships, references on pogonophorans. References on these interesting tube worms.
http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/eukaryotes/animals/pogonophora/pogonophor
(Added: Mon Jul 02 2001)
- Vestimentifera
Arizona's Tree of Life Web Page. Some pictures, characteristics, phylogenetic relationships, but mostly references on this phyla.
http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/eukaryotes/animals/vestimentifera/vestime
(Added: Mon Jul 02 2001)
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