Photo credit: Ekin Tilic
Researchers led by Greg Rouse, a marine biologist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, have photographed a new species of deep sea worm living near a methane seep around 30-miles off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica for the first time.
Classified as Pectinereis strickrotti, this deep sea worm boasts an elongated body flanked by a row of feathery, gill-tipped appendages called parapodia on both sides. Rouse stated that its swimming motion reminded him of a snake or magic carpet. The species itself was named after Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Bruce Strickrott, who happened to be the lead pilot for the deep-sea submersible Alvin.
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We saw two worms near each other about a sub’s length away swimming just off the bottom. We couldn’t see them well and tried to creep in for a closer look, but it’s hard to creep in a submarine and we spooked them,” said Bruce Strickrott of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
