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. 2022 Oct;506(1):150-153.
doi: 10.1134/S001249662205009X. Epub 2022 Oct 27.

First Experience of Keeping Pogonophorans (Annelida: Siboglinidae) in Laboratory Conditions

A A Prudkovsky  1 , N P Karaseva  2 , M N Rimskaya-Korsakova  3 , T P Pimenov  1 , N N Rimskaya-Korsakova  1 , V V Malakhov  1
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First Experience of Keeping Pogonophorans (Annelida: Siboglinidae) in Laboratory Conditions

A A Prudkovsky et al. Dokl Biol Sci. 2022 Oct.

Abstract

The article describes the parameters of maintaining the gutless symbiotrophic annelid Siboglinum fiordicum in laboratory conditions outside the marine environment for 64 days.

Keywords: Siboglinidae; Siboglinum fiordicum; cultivation of marine invertebrates; frenulate pogonophorans.

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Fig. 1.
(a) Scheme of the experimental device, (b) general appearance of a Siboglinum fiordicum worm (bar, 1 mm), and (c) a tank with sediment used to place worms in the aquarium.
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