Galathowenia fragilis (Nilsen & Holthe, 1985)

Faulwetter, Sarah, Simboura, Nomiki, Katsiaras, Nikolaos, Chatzigeorgiou, Giorgos & Arvanitidis, Christos, 2017, Polychaetes of Greece: an updated and annotated checklist, Biodiversity Data Journal 5, pp. 20997-20997 : 20997

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e20997

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scientific name

Galathowenia fragilis (Nilsen & Holthe, 1985)
status

 

Galathowenia fragilis (Nilsen & Holthe, 1985) View in CoL

Myriochele fragilis Nilsen & Holthe, 1985

Notes

Previously only known from the Arctic, the species was found in deep waters (>4000 m) off Crete by Fiege et al. (2000a) in large numbers, constituting to date the only records from Greece and the Mediterranean.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Annelida

Class

Polychaeta

Family

Oweniidae

Genus

Galathowenia