A new bizarrely shaped spoon worm, Arhynchite hayaoi, from Japan

Thursday, June 27, 2013 - 12:30 in Biology & Nature

A new species of the peculiarly shaped spoon worms has been recently discovered in Japan, and described in the open access journal Zookeys. These animals derive their name from their elongated and spoon-like projection (the proboscis), issuing from the barrel- or sweet potato-like roundish body proper (the trunk).

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