Ophelina sp.

Gunton, Laetitia M., Kupriyanova, Elena K., Alvestad, Tom, Avery, Lynda, Blake, James A., Biriukova, Olga, Boeggemann, Markus, Borisova, Polina, Budaeva, Nataliya, Burghardt, Ingo, Capa, Maria, Georgieva, Magdalena N., Glasby, Christopher J., Hsueh, Pan-Wen, Hutchings, Pat, Jimi, Naoto, Kongsrud, Jon A., Langeneck, Joachim, Meissner, Karin, Murray, Anna, Nikolic, Mark, Paxton, Hannelore, Ramos, Dino, Schulze, Anja, Sobczyk, Robert, Watson, Charlotte, Wiklund, Helena, Wilson, Robin S., Zhadan, Anna & Zhang, Jinghuai, 2021, Annelids of the eastern Australian abyss collected by the 2017 RV ' Investigator' voyage, ZooKeys 1020, pp. 1-198 : 1

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1020.57921

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CC23B8CE-8C8E-473C-BD8C-44E74252A33D

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3812BB8F-4F05-A422-79BD-22229EBD8673

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scientific name

Ophelina sp.
status

 

Ophelina sp.

Diagnosis.

Following synonymy of Ammotrypanella and Ophelina ( Blake and Maciolek 2019a). Bluntly conical prostomium with oval palpode having an enlarged base. 32 chaetigers. Chaetiger 24-32 ventrally located and compressed. Chaetigers 1-6 shorter than midbody chaetigers, having more abundant chaetae. Branchial scars present from chaetigers 24-30. Anal funnel damaged, slightly longer than the last two posterior chaetigers, directed dorsally.

Records.

15 specimens. Suppl. material 1: ops. 9, 16, 27, 31, 33, 55, 79, 96 (AM). 46 specimens. Suppl. material 1: ops. 9, 16, 31, 33, 45, 54, 76, 79, 98, 110, 134 (NHMUK).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Annelida

Class

Polychaeta

Order

Phyllodocida

Family

Opheliidae