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Osedax japonicus Fujikura, Fujiwara & Kawato, 2006

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Species
Osedax Rouse, Goffredi & Vrijenhoek, 2004
japonicus
Fujikura, Fujiwara & Kawato
Fujikura, Katsunori, Yoshihiro Fujiwara & Masaru Kawato. 2006 A new species of Osedax (Annelida: Siboglinidae) associated with whale carcasses off Kyushu, Japan. Zoological Science 23(8): 733–740.
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Figs. 2–4, 6
Holotype: NSMT-Pol H 478; Paratype: UMUT-RW29011, and NSMT-Pol P 479
off Cape Nomamisaki, Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan (31°18.84′N, 129°59.52′E, 245 m depth); by ROV Hyper-Dolphin of JAMSTEC, Dive No. 333; extracted from an ulna of a dead sperm whale