Ross Mayhew wrote:

> Now that i have made a complete fool of myself ( :-) ), lets get back "on track".
>         Has anybody done much work on the mollucs of deep-sea vents?  I know a half-dozen of the spp named
> so far, and they are all bivalves!  Have any gastropods, chitons, scaphopods, cephalopods,
> monoplacophora or aplacophora been found associated with these incredibly interesting
> chemically-driven ecosystems?   Has genetic work been done to try and determine how long these
> populations have been "isolated" from their more shallow-water counterparts?  Do some of the spp
> found in these communities also occur elsewhere (ie, what is the percentage of endemics??).  I am
> curious (no comments from the peanut gallery, proverbial or otherwise!!), and probably many other
> list members are also fascinated by this phenomenon, but never took the time to do much digging in
> the literature!!
> -Ross M.

 Go to this site;
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/8431/index.html
then click on vent fauna.
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