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divaricate nutclam

Acila castrensis

Classification

Family
Nuculidae

Xenoturbella japonica is a marine benthic worm-like species that belongs to the family Xenoturbellidae. It was discovered in the western Pacific Ocean by a group of Japanese scientists from the University of Tsukuba. The species was described in 2017 in a study published in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology and amended in 2018.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Canada · 38United States of America · 8