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RAMS taxon detailsOsedax Rouse, Goffredi & Vrijenhoek, 2004
265008 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:265008)
accepted
Genus
marine,
recent only
Rouse, Greg W.; Goffredi, S. K.; Vrijenhoek, R. C. (2004). Osedax: bone-eating marine worms with dwarf males. <em>Science (Washington D C.</em> 305: 668-671., available online at https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1098650 [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Osedax Rouse, Goffredi & Vrijenhoek, 2004. Accessed through: De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2025) Register of Antarctic Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/rams/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=265008 on 2025-06-04
De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2025). Register of Antarctic Marine Species. Osedax Rouse, Goffredi & Vrijenhoek, 2004. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/rams/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=265008 on 2025-06-04
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original description
Rouse, Greg W.; Goffredi, S. K.; Vrijenhoek, R. C. (2004). Osedax: bone-eating marine worms with dwarf males. <em>Science (Washington D C.</em> 305: 668-671., available online at https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1098650 [details]
taxonomy source Rouse, Greg W.; Goffredi, Shana K.; Johnson, Shannon B.; Vrijenhoek, Robert C. (2018). An inordinate fondness for Osedax (Siboglinidae: Annelida): Fourteen new species of bone worms from California. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4377(4): 451-489., available online at https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4377.4.1 [details] taxonomy source Berman, Gabriella H.; Hiley, Avery S.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Rouse, Greg W. (2024). New Species of Osedax (Siboglinidae: Annelida) from New Zealand and the Gulf of Mexico. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5443(3): 337-352., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5443.3.2 [details] Available for editors  taxonomy source Higgs, Nicholas D.; Little, Crispin T. S.; Glover, Adrian G.; Dahlgren, Thomas G.; Smith, Craig R.; Dominici, Stefano. (2012). Evidence of <i>Osedax</i> worm borings in Pliocene (∼3 Ma) whale bone from the Mediterranean. <em>Historical Biology.</em> 24(3): 269-277., available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08912963.2011.621167 note: Not mentioned in the abstract but in an appendix the authors create Osspecus tuscia, as an ichnotaxon name for the Mediterranean fossil borings presumed to be created by Osedax [details] additional source Danise, Silvia; Higgs, Nicholas D. (2015). Bone-eating <i>Osedax</i> worms lived on Mesozoic marine reptile deadfalls. <em>Biology Letters.</em> 11(4): 20150072: 1-5., available online at https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0072 note: Osedax borings reported from Mesozoic plesiosaur and cheloniid turtle fossil bones [details] Available for editors additional source Boessenecker, Robert W.; Fordyce, R. Ewan. (2015). Trace fossil evidence of predation upon bone-eating worms on a baleen whale skeleton from the Oligocene of New Zealand. <em>Lethaia.</em> 48(3): 326-331., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/let.12108 note: Interpretation as Osedax/Osspecus activity of borings and scrapes on a fossil Oligocene baleen whale from upper Oligocene) at the ‘Earthquakes’ locality near Duntroon, North Otago, New Zealand [details] additional source Jamison-Todd, Sarah; Mannion, Philip D.; Glover, Adrian G.; Upchurch, Paul. (2024). New occurrences of the bone-eating worm <i>Osedax</i> from Late Cretaceous marine reptiles and implications for its biogeography and diversification. <em>Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.</em> 291: 2020: 1-8., available online at https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rspb.2023.2830 note: Genus-level records of Osedax inferred. Presence of Osspecus ichnotaxon in bioeroded specimens of plesiosaurs and mosasaurs from the Late Cretaceous of the United Kingdom, Belgium and the United State... Genus-level records of Osedax inferred. Presence of Osspecus ichnotaxon in bioeroded specimens of plesiosaurs and mosasaurs from the Late Cretaceous of the United Kingdom, Belgium and the United States of America confirmed through CT scanning.
additional source Jamison-Todd, Sarah; Upchurch, Paul; Mannion, Philip D. (2023). The prevalence of invertebrate bioerosion on Mesozoic marine reptile bone from the Jurassic and Cretaceous of the United Kingdom: new data and implications for taphonomy and environment. <em>Geological Magazine.</em> 160(9): 1701-1710., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016756823000651 note: Review of bioerosion, including by Osedax, on UK Mesozoic reptile fossils [details] additional source van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details] ecology source Rouse, Greg; Wilson, Nerida; Worsaae, Katrine; Vrijenhoek, Robert. (2015). A Dwarf Male Reversal in Bone-Eating Worms. <em>Current Biology.</em> 25: 236-241., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.11.032 [details] ecology source Vrijenhoek, R. C.; Johnson, S. B.; Rouse, G. W. (2008). Bone-eating Osedax females and their ‘harems' of dwarf males are recruited from a common larval pool. <em>Molecular Ecology.</em> 17(20): 4535-4544., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294x.2008.03937.x [details]  Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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