Chaetopterus kagosimensis

Chaetopterus kagosimensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Annelida
Class:	Polychaeta
Family:	Chaetopteridae
Genus:	Chaetopterus
Species:	C. kagosimensis
Binomial name
	Chaetopterus kagosimensis; Izuka, 1911

Last updated August 10, 2025

Chaetopterus kagosimensis is a species of parchment worm, a marine polychaete in the family Chaetopteridae ^[1]

Taxonomy

Chaetopterus kagosimensis was formerly synonymized with C. variopedatus but recent papers have found it to be a valid species.^[2]^[3]

References

↑ Izuka, Akira. (1911). [On the genus Chaetopterus from Japanese waters]. Dōbutsugaku Zasshi [The Zoological Magazine], Tokyo. 23(274): 431-435, text-figs. 1-2, plate 8 figs. 1-17. [In Japanese]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10213538
↑ 西栄二郎，2002．干潟の普通種ツバサゴカイに忍び寄る危機．タクサ，(12): 8–17.
↑ Miura, Tomoyuki. (2020). Note on small chaetopterid annelids found in Kagoshima Bay, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima. 46: 487-494. [In Japanese]. https://journal.kagoshima-nature.org/046-086/

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[1] Izuka, Akira. (1911). [On the genus Chaetopterus from Japanese waters]. Dōbutsugaku Zasshi [The Zoological Magazine], Tokyo. 23(274): 431-435, text-figs. 1-2, plate 8 figs. 1-17. [In Japanese]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10213538

[2] 西栄二郎，2002．干潟の普通種ツバサゴカイに忍び寄る危機．タクサ，(12): 8–17.

[3] Miura, Tomoyuki. (2020). Note on small chaetopterid annelids found in Kagoshima Bay, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima. 46: 487-494. [In Japanese]. https://journal.kagoshima-nature.org/046-086/

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