Osedax japonicus is a species of bathypelagic polychaete tube worm that lives at great depths on the seabed and is able to sustain itself on the bones of a dead whale. It was first described in 2006 from a sunken sperm whale carcase near Kyushu, Japan.
^Read, Geoffrey (2008). "Osedax japonicus Fujikura, Fujiwara & Kawato, 2006". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2014-02-22.
Osedaxjaponicus is a species of bathypelagic polychaete tube worm that lives at great depths on the seabed and is able to sustain itself on the bones...
Osedax is a genus of deep-sea siboglinid polychaetes, commonly called boneworms, zombie worms, or bone-eating worms. Osedax is Latin for "bone-eater"...
Horikoshi, K. (1 April 2008). "Neptunomonas japonica sp. nov., an Osedaxjaponicus symbiont-like bacterium isolated from sediment adjacent to sperm whale...
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