Miura, Tomoyuki and Hashimoto, Jun 1991. Two new branchiate scale-worms (Polynoidae: Polychaeta) from the hydrothermal vent of the Okinawa Trough and the volcanic seamount off Chichijima Island. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 104(1): 166-174.[details]
Type locality contained in Kaikata Seamount(s)
type locality contained in Kaikata Seamount(s) [details]
, Note Pacific Ocean, Kaikata Seamount, off Japan
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Type locality Pacific Ocean, Kaikata Seamount, off Japan [details]
Taxonomy Known only from the holotype record. Genus uncertain. Desbruyères et al (2006) did not include this species in...
Taxonomy Known only from the holotype record. Genus uncertain. Desbruyères et al (2006) did not include this species in Branchinotogluma with the other former Opisthotrochopodus, although it was present in the first (1997:51) edition of the Handbook. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Opisthotrochopodus japonicus Miura & Hashimoto, 1991. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=330236 on 2024-09-21
original descriptionMiura, Tomoyuki and Hashimoto, Jun 1991. Two new branchiate scale-worms (Polynoidae: Polychaeta) from the hydrothermal vent of the Okinawa Trough and the volcanic seamount off Chichijima Island. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 104(1): 166-174.[details]
context source (Deepsea)Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online athttp://www.iobis.org/[details]
new combination referenceZhang, Yanjie; Chen, Chong.; Qiu, Jian-Wen. (2018). Sexually Dimorphic Scale Worms (Annelida: Polynoidae) From Hydrothermal Vents in the Okinawa Trough: Two New Species and Two New Sex Morphs. <em>Frontiers in Marine Science.</em> 5 (112): 1-20., available online athttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2018.00112/full page(s): 7-10, figures 3, 4 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Specimen National Museum of Science & Technology, Tokyo [details] Taxonomy Known only from the holotype record. Genus uncertain. Desbruyères et al (2006) did not include this species in Branchinotogluma with the other former Opisthotrochopodus, although it was present in the first (1997:51) edition of the Handbook. [details] Type locality Pacific Ocean, Kaikata Seamount, off Japan [details]