Deep-Sea taxon details
Oxydromus Grube, 1855
173457 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:173457)
accepted
Genus
Ophiodromus Sars, 1862 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Orseis Ehlers, 1864 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
- Species Oxydromus agilis (Ehlers, 1864)
- Species Oxydromus blacki (Knox, 1960)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
masculine
Grube, Adolph Eduard. (1855). Beschreibungen neuer oder wenig bekannter Anneliden. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin.</em> 21(1): 81-136, plates III-V., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6651100
page(s): 98 [details]
page(s): 98 [details]
Etymology Grube provides the Greek original and the German equivalent for his new Latin genus name, Oxydromus (see the image tab)....
Homonymy Oxydromus Grube, 1855 was for a time thought to be a junior homonym to Oxydromus Schlegel, 1854, due to listing of that...
Etymology Grube provides the Greek original and the German equivalent for his new Latin genus name, Oxydromus (see the image tab). His translation is "schnell laufen" = "fast run" and "dromus" derives from Greek "dromos" with meanings relating to race and running. It is likely Grube or his collectors had observed the swift movement of live Oxydromus worms when disturbed. Oxydromus is masculine gender [details]
Homonymy Oxydromus Grube, 1855 was for a time thought to be a junior homonym to Oxydromus Schlegel, 1854, due to listing of that...
Homonymy Oxydromus Grube, 1855 was for a time thought to be a junior homonym to Oxydromus Schlegel, 1854, due to listing of that name in Nomenclator Zoologicus, but Schlegel's name was actually always just an invalid subsequent misspelling of Ocydromus in Aves. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Oxydromus Grube, 1855. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=173457 on 2025-05-21
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Oxydromus Grube, 1855. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=173457 on 2025-05-21
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Grube, Adolph Eduard. (1855). Beschreibungen neuer oder wenig bekannter Anneliden. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin.</em> 21(1): 81-136, plates III-V., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6651100
page(s): 98 [details]
original description (of Orseis Ehlers, 1864) Ehlers, E. H. (1864). Die Borstenwürmer (Annelida Chaetopoda) nach systematischen und anatomischen Untersuchungen dargestellt. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1985759
page(s): 188 [details]
original description (of Ophiodromus Sars, 1862) Sars, M. (1862). Uddrag af en af detaillerede Afbildninger ledsaget udf rlig Beskrivelse over f lgende norske Annelider. Forhandlinger fra Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania, 1861: 87-95., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/60512056
page(s): 87 [details]
status source Villalobos-Guerrero, Tulio; Harris, Leslie. 2012. Oxydromus Grube, 1855 reinstated over Ophiodromus Sars, 1862 (Polychaeta, Hesionidae). ZooKeys 241(0): 21-31, available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.241.3820 [details]
ecology source Britayev, Temir A.; Antokhina, T.I. (2012). Symbiotic polychaetes from Nhatrang Bay, Vietnam. In: Britayev, T.A.; Pavlov, D.S. (eds). <em>[book].</em> Benthic fauna of the Bay of Nhatrang, Southern Vietnam. Moscow: KMK Scientific Press. 491 pp. Volume 2: 11-55., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258626701_Symbiotic_polychaetes_from_Nhatrang_Bay_Vietnam
page(s): 30 [details] Available for editors
identification resource Rizzo, A. E.; Salazar-vallejo, S. I. (2014). Hesionidae Grube, 1850 (Annelida: Polychaeta) from South-Southeastern Brazil, with descriptions of four new species. Zootaxa. 3856(2): 267-291., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3856.2.7
page(s): 281 [key to genus Oxydromus] [details]
page(s): 98 [details]
original description (of Orseis Ehlers, 1864) Ehlers, E. H. (1864). Die Borstenwürmer (Annelida Chaetopoda) nach systematischen und anatomischen Untersuchungen dargestellt. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1985759
page(s): 188 [details]
original description (of Ophiodromus Sars, 1862) Sars, M. (1862). Uddrag af en af detaillerede Afbildninger ledsaget udf rlig Beskrivelse over f lgende norske Annelider. Forhandlinger fra Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania, 1861: 87-95., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/60512056
page(s): 87 [details]
status source Villalobos-Guerrero, Tulio; Harris, Leslie. 2012. Oxydromus Grube, 1855 reinstated over Ophiodromus Sars, 1862 (Polychaeta, Hesionidae). ZooKeys 241(0): 21-31, available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.241.3820 [details]
ecology source Britayev, Temir A.; Antokhina, T.I. (2012). Symbiotic polychaetes from Nhatrang Bay, Vietnam. In: Britayev, T.A.; Pavlov, D.S. (eds). <em>[book].</em> Benthic fauna of the Bay of Nhatrang, Southern Vietnam. Moscow: KMK Scientific Press. 491 pp. Volume 2: 11-55., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258626701_Symbiotic_polychaetes_from_Nhatrang_Bay_Vietnam
page(s): 30 [details] Available for editors
identification resource Rizzo, A. E.; Salazar-vallejo, S. I. (2014). Hesionidae Grube, 1850 (Annelida: Polychaeta) from South-Southeastern Brazil, with descriptions of four new species. Zootaxa. 3856(2): 267-291., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3856.2.7
page(s): 281 [key to genus Oxydromus] [details]
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Etymology Grube provides the Greek original and the German equivalent for his new Latin genus name, Oxydromus (see the image tab). His translation is "schnell laufen" = "fast run" and "dromus" derives from Greek "dromos" with meanings relating to race and running. It is likely Grube or his collectors had observed the swift movement of live Oxydromus worms when disturbed. Oxydromus is masculine gender [details]Grammatical gender Oxydromus is masculine gender. This is evident from its suffix and its etymology, and its treatment as masculine by almost all authors. Only Oxydromus brevipalpa Hartmann-Schröder, 1959 and Oxydromus digitifera Çinar, Dağli & Erdoğan-Dereli, 2022 appear to have incorrect suffixes. O. digitifera should be O. digitifer as the adjective is 'fer, fera, ferum' for masculine, feminine, neuter usages. [details]
Homonymy Oxydromus Grube, 1855 was for a time thought to be a junior homonym to Oxydromus Schlegel, 1854, due to listing of that name in Nomenclator Zoologicus, but Schlegel's name was actually always just an invalid subsequent misspelling of Ocydromus in Aves. [details]
