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Ophelia Savigny, 1818 
AphiaID: 129413

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Annelida > Polychaeta > Scolecida > Opheliidae > Opheliinae
Status accepted
Record
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Rank Genus
Parent Opheliinae
Source  additional source: Fauchald, K. 1977. The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA) Science Series 28:1-188, available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]

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 Species Ophelia limacina (Rathke, 1843)
Species Ophelia rathkei McIntosh, 1908
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Feedingtypes  deposit feeder: subsurface [details]
grazer [details]
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129413
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Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Bellan, Gérard
2008-02-28 11:07:56Z  changed  Decock, Wim
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
  
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  Citation: Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Ophelia Savigny, 1818. In: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2013) World Polychaeta database. Accessed through: Taxa used on the Macrobel website at http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/macrobel/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129413 on 2013-05-23