World-wide whale worms? A new species of Osedaxfrom the shallow north Atlantic

• Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
• Main Authors: Glover, Adrian G, Källström, Björn, Smith, Craig R, Dahlgren, Thomas G
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 2005
• Subjects: Pacific; Stepping Stones; Balaenoptera acutorostrata; minke whale; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2005.3275; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2005.3275; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full-xml/10.1098/rspb.2005.3275

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 northeast Pacific, this is the first species of Osedax known from a...