A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF MONOSTILIFEROUS HOPLONEMERTEAN COLONIZING AN INCHOATE HYDROTHERMAL FIELD ON JUAN-DE-FUCA RIDGE

Authors
ROGERS AD GIBSON R TUNNICLIFFE V
Citation
Ad. Rogers et al., A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF MONOSTILIFEROUS HOPLONEMERTEAN COLONIZING AN INCHOATE HYDROTHERMAL FIELD ON JUAN-DE-FUCA RIDGE, Deep-sea research. Part 1. Oceanographic research papers, 43(10), 1996, pp. 1581
Citations number
52
Categorie Soggetti
Oceanografhy
Journal title
Deep-sea research. Part 1. Oceanographic research papers → ACNP
ISSN journal
09670637
Volume
43
Issue
10
Year of publication
1996
Database
ISI
SICI code
0967-0637(1996)43:10<1581:ANGASO>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
A new genus and species of monostiliferous hoplonemertean, collected f rom a hydrothermal vent on the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the northeastern Pacific, is described and illustrated. A significant feature of the sp ecies, not reported for any other nemertean, is the occurrence of lipi d-like globules associated with large numbers of mitochondria in cells that are distributed in irregular groups immediately below the body w all musculature. Ecological evidence suggests that the nemertean, the first described from any hydrothermal vent system, is both an early co lonizer of vents and vent endemic. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd