@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref15562,
author = {Adrian G Glover and Bj?rn K?llstr?m and Craig R Smith and Thomas G Dahlgren},
title = {World-wide whale worms? A new species of Osedax from the shallow north Atlantic},
year = {2005},
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doi = {},
url = {},
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journal = {Proceedings of the Royal Society B},
volume = {272},
number = {},
pages = {2587--2592},
abstract = {We describe a new species of the remarkable whalebone-eating siboglinid worm genus, Osedax, from a whale carcass in the shallow north Atlantic, west of Sweden. Previously only recorded from deep-sea (1500 3000 m) whale-falls in the north-east Pacific, this is the first species of Osedax known from a shelf-depth whale-fall, and the first from the Atlantic Ocean. The new species, Osedax mucofloris sp. n., is abundant on the bones of an experimentally implanted Minke whale carcass (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) at 125 m depth in the shallow North Sea. O. mucofloris can be cultured on bones maintained in aquaria. The presence of O. mucofloris in the shallow North Sea and north-east Pacific suggests global distribution on whale-falls for the Osedax clade. Molecular evidence from mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase 1 (CO1) and 18S rRNA sequences suggests that O. mucofloris has high dispersal rates, and provides support for the idea of whale-falls acting as stepping-stones for the global dispersal of siboglinid annelids over ecological and evolutionary time.}
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Citation title: "World-wide whale worms? A new species of Osedax from the shallow north Atlantic".
