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Based on the available literature data, museum collections, and our own material, a review is presented on sipunculan species of the northwestern Pacific that occur at depths greater than 500 m. Brief morphological descriptions showing the main characters used in taxonomy and a key for the identification of deep-sea sipunculans of the northwestern Pacific to species level are proposed. The key includes 22 valid species representing 7 genera and 5 families of Sipuncula.
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Maiorova, A.S., Adrianov, A.V. Deep-sea sipunculans (Sipuncula) of the northwestern Pacific. Russ J Mar Biol 43, 181–189 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063074017030075
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