mussel
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The rocks are densely covered by Bathymodiolus mussels, tube worms, shrimp, amphipods, and vivid purple sea cucumbers.
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These worms, still common today, bore into the shells of mussels and oysters but typically don't kill their hosts outright.
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The amphipod was discovered at a depth of 2,602 meters in a mussel bed within the Galápagos Rift hydrothermal vent fields.
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Locals arrive with buckets and rakes, digging for mussels and clams—“fishing on foot,” they call it.
Mollusks such as snails and mussels, along with vertebrates, were the most affected, while plants and arthropods faced relatively few losses.
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