About Lamellibrachia luymesi

Lamellibrachia luymesi is a species of tube worms in the family Siboglinidae. It lives at deep-sea cold seeps where hydrocarbons (oil and methane) are leaking out of the seafloor. It is entirely reliant on internal, sulfide-oxidizing bacterial symbionts for its nutrition. These are located in a centrally located 'trophosome'. It provides the bacteria with hydrogen sulfide and oxygen by taking them up from the environment and binding them to a specialized hemoglobin molecule. It may help fuel the generation of sulfide by excreting sulfate through their roots into the sediments below the aggregations.

Animalia (Kingdom); Annelida (Phylum); Polychaeta (Class); Sedentaria (Subclass); Canalipalpata (Infraclass); Sabellida (Order); Siboglinidae (Family); Lamellibrachia (Genus); Lamellibrachia luymesi (Species)

Lamellibrachia luymesi van der Land & Nørrevang, 1975

1. VAN DER LAND J. The systematic position of Lamellibrachia (Annelida, Vestimentifera)[J]. Zeitschrift fur Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung, Sonderheft, 1975, 1975: 86-101. (Land et al., 1975)

Not stated. Perhaps (from the locality information given) named after a research vessel named "Luymes", in turn named after the hydrographer Johan Lambertus Hendrikus Luymes

continental slope off Guyana, S America, North Atlantic Ocean, 8.0167, -57.4° (8 1' N, 57 24' W) "Luymes" Guyana Shelf Exp. sta. 101, depth 500 m