WoRMS taxon details
Osedax Rouse, Goffredi & Vrijenhoek, 2004
265008 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:265008)
accepted
Genus
Osedax rubiplumus Rouse, Goffredi & Vrijenhoek, 2004 (type by original designation)
- Species Osedax antarcticus Glover, Wiklund & Dahlgren, 2013
- Species Osedax bozoi Berman, Hiley, Read & Rouse, 2024
- Species Osedax braziliensis Fujiwara, Jimi, Sumida, Kawato & Kitazato, 2019
- Species Osedax bryani Rouse, Goffredi, Johnson & Vrijenhoek, 2018
- Species Osedax byronbayensis Georgieva, Wiklund, Ramos, Neal, Glasby & Gunton, 2023
- Species Osedax craigmcclaini Berman, Hiley, Read & Rouse, 2024
- Species Osedax crouchi Amon, Wiklund, Dahlgren, Copley, Smith, Jamieson & Glover, 2014
- Species Osedax deceptionensis Taboada, Cristobo, Avila, Wiklund & Glover, 2013
- Species Osedax docricketts Rouse, Goffredi, Johnson & Vrijenhoek, 2018
- Species Osedax estcourti Berman, Hiley, Read & Rouse, 2024
- Species Osedax fenrisi Eilertsen, Dahlgren & Rapp, 2020
- Species Osedax frankpressi Rouse, Goffredi & Vrijenhoek, 2004
- Species Osedax jabba Rouse, Goffredi, Johnson & Vrijenhoek, 2018
- Species Osedax japonicus Fujikura, Fujiwara & Kawato, 2006
- Species Osedax knutei Rouse, Goffredi, Johnson & Vrijenhoek, 2018
- Species Osedax lehmani Rouse, Goffredi, Johnson & Vrijenhoek, 2018
- Species Osedax lonnyi Rouse, Goffredi, Johnson & Vrijenhoek, 2018
- Species Osedax mucofloris Glover, Kallstrom, Smith & Dahlgren, 2005
- Species Osedax nordenskjoeldi Amon, Wiklund, Dahlgren, Copley, Smith, Jamieson & Glover, 2014
- Species Osedax packardorum Rouse, Goffredi, Johnson & Vrijenhoek, 2018
- Species Osedax priapus Rouse, Wilson, Worsaae & Vrijenhoek, 2015
- Species Osedax randyi Rouse, Goffredi, Johnson & Vrijenhoek, 2018
- Species Osedax rogersi Amon, Wiklund, Dahlgren, Copley, Smith, Jamieson & Glover, 2014
- Species Osedax roseus Rouse, Worsaae, Johnson, Jones & Vrijenhoek, 2008
- Species Osedax rubiplumus Rouse, Goffredi & Vrijenhoek, 2004
- Species Osedax ryderi Rouse, Goffredi, Johnson & Vrijenhoek, 2018
- Species Osedax sigridae Rouse, Goffredi, Johnson & Vrijenhoek, 2018
- Species Osedax talkovici Rouse, Goffredi, Johnson & Vrijenhoek, 2018
- Species Osedax tiburon Rouse, Goffredi, Johnson & Vrijenhoek, 2018
- Species Osedax traceyae Berman, Hiley, Read & Rouse, 2024
- Species Osedax ventana Rouse, Goffredi, Johnson & Vrijenhoek, 2018
- Species Osedax waadjum Georgieva, Wiklund, Ramos, Neal, Glasby & Gunton, 2023
- Species Osedax westernflyer Rouse, Goffredi, Johnson & Vrijenhoek, 2018
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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]
Etymology Authors: "From Latin os, bone, and edax, devouring" Gender masculine
Etymology Authors: "From Latin os, bone, and edax, devouring" Gender masculine [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Osedax Rouse, Goffredi & Vrijenhoek, 2004. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=265008 on 2024-11-21
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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
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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 [request]
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...
[details] Available for editors [request]
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]
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
[request]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
[request]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.
[request]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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Diagnosis Updated genus diagnosis from Rouse et. al. 2018: Diagnosis. Siboglinids with females having a contractile trunk, bulbous ovisac, and branching ‘roots’. A crown of palps usually present, with or without pinnules. Trunk lies within transparent tube emergent from bone surface. Mostly males are dwarfs resembling larvae, exceptionally having a crown, contractile trunk, bulbous testis sac, and branching ‘roots’, as in O. priapus. Crown in females, when present, comprised of cylindrical oviduct plus four palps. Osedax priapus, the only species known to produce adult bone-eating males, has crown with only two palps. No mouth or obvious gut. Cylindrical trunk comprised mostly of longitudinal muscles and glands, with large dorsal and ventral blood vessels present. Oviduct or sperm duct runs dorsally along trunk surface into posterior ovisac, or testis sac. Ovisac or testis sac enclosed by epidermis and trophosome with bacteriocytes, which also extends outwards as vascularized ‘roots’. No chaetae or segmentation apparent in females or bone-eating males. In most species, paedomorphic dwarf males cluster around oviduct in gelatinous tube surrounding trunk of female. The dwarf males possess anterior prototroch and posterior hooked chaetae arranged on two segments. Hooks, lacking rostrum, comprise capitium with curved teeth over subrostral process. Internally, males contain spermatids and sperm anteriorly. [details]Etymology Authors: "From Latin os, bone, and edax, devouring" Gender masculine [details]
Grammatical gender masculine, fide authors. [details]
