A group of very old tubeworms

A group of very old tubeworms (Lamellibrachia luymesi and Seepiophila jonesi) living on the same piece of carbonate rock as large colonies of the gorgonian Callogorgia Americana americana, with brittle stars and a galatheid crab crawling on the gorgonians. Photo by Derk Bergquist.

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