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Pogonophora

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Biology of the Integument

Abstract

Members of the phylum Pogonophora are thin wormlike animals (Fig. 1) without a gut. They live in tubes of their own secretion, mainly in muddy sediments in the deep sea. A few species of Sclerolinum live in rotting wood on the sea floor and some large pogonophores of the subgroup Vestimentifera attach their tubes to hard substrates and occur in large numbers around deep-sea hydrothermal vents.

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  1. Marine Biological Association, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, PL1 2PB, England

    Eve C. Southward

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  1. Fachbereich Biologie, Universität Kinematische Zellforschung, Postfach 111932, D-6000, Frankfurt a.M., Germany

    Jürgen Bereiter-Hahn

  2. Department of Dermatology, Boston University School of Medicine, 80 East Concord Street, Boston, MA, 02118, USA

    A. Gedeon Matoltsy

  3. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Keele, Keele, Staffordshire ST5, 5BG/GB, UK

    K. Sylvia Richards

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Southward, E.C. (1984). Pogonophora. In: Bereiter-Hahn, J., Matoltsy, A.G., Richards, K.S. (eds) Biology of the Integument. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-51593-4_22

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