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Members of the phylum Pogonophora are thin wormlike animals (Fig. 1) without a gut. They live in tubes of their own secretion, mainly in muddy sediments in the deep sea. A few species of Sclerolinum live in rotting wood on the sea floor and some large pogonophores of the subgroup Vestimentifera attach their tubes to hard substrates and occur in large numbers around deep-sea hydrothermal vents.
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Southward, E.C. (1984). Pogonophora. In: Bereiter-Hahn, J., Matoltsy, A.G., Richards, K.S. (eds) Biology of the Integument. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-51593-4_22
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