Fig. 5: ROV photographs of patches of living chemosymbiotic molluscs among ash deposits at Tahi Moana and ABE. | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 5: ROV photographs of patches of living chemosymbiotic molluscs among ash deposits at Tahi Moana and ABE.

From: Deep seafloor hydrothermal vent communities buried by volcanic ash from the 2022 Hunga eruption

Fig. 5

A Patches of living chemosymbiotic I. nautilei snails and B. septemdierum mussels among the ash deposits at the Tahi Moana vent field and B) Alviniconcha spp. and I. nautilei snails on a hydrothermal vent chimney at the ABE vent field. Inset boxes highlight representative patches of Alviniconcha spp. (Alv.) and I. nautilei (I.n.) snails.

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