bone-eating snot flower worm
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- A worm-like creature, Osedax mucofloris, that feeds on the carcasses of minke whales in the North Sea.
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A slight misunderstanding of the taxonomic name Osedax mucofloris, which actually means "snot-flower bone-eater", with mucofloris modifying Osedax rather than the other way around.
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