''Escarpia laminata'' is one of the longest living

tube worm A tubeworm is any worm-like sessile invertebrate that anchors its tail to an underwater surface and secretes around its body a mineral tube, into which it can withdraw its entire body. Tubeworms are found among the following taxa: * Annelida, the ...

s that can be found in the

cold seeps A cold seep (sometimes called a cold vent) is an area of the ocean floor where hydrogen sulfide, methane and other hydrocarbon-rich fluid seepage occurs, often in the form of a brine pool. ''Cold'' does not mean that the temperature of the seep ...

at a depth of 1000m to 3000m from sea level in the

Gulf of Mexico The Gulf of Mexico ( es, Golfo de México) is an oceanic basin, ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of ...

. These organisms often reach age of between 100–200 years, with some of them determined to be more than 300 years old. It is possible that some may be aged 1,000 years or more. The species was first classified in 1985.

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* * Polychaetes {{Annelid-stub