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Osedax rubiplumus Rouse, Goffredi & Vrijenhoek, 2004 
AphiaID: 265981

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Sabellida (Order) > Siboglinidae (Family) > Osedax (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Osedax
Parent Osedax
Sources  original description: Rouse, G.W.; Goffredi, S.K.; and Vrijenhoek, R.C. 2004. Osedax: bone-eating marine worms with dwarf males. Science (Washington D C), 305(5684):668-671 [details]

basis of record: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution East North Pacific [details]
Links To Barcode of Life
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (119 nucleotides; 102 proteins)
Notes  Biology: in whalebones [details]

Type locality: USA, California (marine) [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:265981
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-01-04 16:28:44Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
  
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  Citation: Fauchald, K. (2013). Osedax rubiplumus Rouse, Goffredi & Vrijenhoek, 2004. In: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2013) World Polychaeta database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=265981 on 2013-06-19
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