Mass of Tubeworms (IMAGE)

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Mass of Tubeworms

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This image shows a mass of tubes of Hydroides elegans that recruited to a screen suspended from a pier in Pearl Harbor. Such an accumulation of hard, calcified tubes is what makes this tubeworm such a problem for ships, harbors and coastal industries.

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Brian Nedved, UH

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