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Top: A sampling arm removes material from a colony of the eurythermal polychaete Alvinella pompejana (Pompeii Worm) near a hydrothermal vent on the East Pacific rise at a depth of 2500 m. Nautilia profundicola sp. nov. was isolated from the hair-like projections that coat these worms. Bottom: A zoarcid vent fish (Thermarces cerberus) swimming among a patch of vent tubeworms (Riftia pachyptila) from the same location. Images courtesy S. Craig Cary, University of Delaware, Lewes, DE, USA. See the paper by Smith et al. in this issue, pp. 1598–1602.