| Osedax japonicus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
| Clade: | Sedentaria |
| Order: | Sabellida |
| Family: | Siboglinidae |
| Genus: | Osedax |
| Species: | O. japonicus
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| Binomial name | |
| Osedax japonicus | |
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.