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Benthoscolex

Benthoscolex

Horst, 1912

GBIF:141117713

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Diagnosis. Body fusiform, flat. Eyes absent. Caruncle consisting of three ridges without ornamentation. Branchiae absent at least in first five chaetigers, dendritically branched. Dorsal and ventral cirri occur singly on the notopodium and neuropodium.
Jimi, Naoto, Kimura, Taeko, Ogawa, Akito, Kajihara, Hiroshi (2018): A new species of the rare, deep-sea polychaete genus Benthoscolex from the Sea of Kumano, Japan (Annelida, Amphinomidae). ZooKeys 738: 81-88, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.738.22927, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.738.22927

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AnimaliaAnnelidaPolychaetaAmphinomidaAmphinomidaeBenthoscolex

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A new species of the rare, deep-sea polychaete genus Benthoscolex from the Sea of Kumano, Japan (Annelida, Amphinomidae)

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This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Jimi, Naoto, Kimura, Taeko, Ogawa, Akito, Kajihara, Hiroshi (2018): A new species of the rare, deep-sea polychaete genus Benthoscolex from the Sea of Kumano, Japan (Annelida, Amphinomidae). ZooKeys 738: 81-88, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.738.22927, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.738.22927

Jimi N, Kimura T, Ogawa A, Kajihara H, pensoft (2018). A new species of the rare, deep-sea polychaete genus Benthoscolex from the Sea of Kumano, Japan (Annelida, Amphinomidae). Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.738.22927 accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-14.

CC0Published 12/31/2018View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
141117713
Dataset Key
097a6ad6-3fd4-456f-b5a5-8da2944d5c15
Origin
source
Backbone Key
2317535
Taxon ID
DDB27BE6A51B144E768E817383BE25FA.taxon
Last Crawled
6/10/2026
Last Interpreted
6/10/2026
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