| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Ophelia Savigny, 1818 |
| Sources | |
additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source: Hartmann-Schröder, G. (1996). Annelida, Borstenwürmer, Polychaeta [Annelida, bristleworms, Polychaeta]. 2nd revised ed. The fauna of Germany and adjacent seas with their characteristics and ecology, 58. Gustav Fischer: Jena, Germany. ISBN 3-437-35038-2. 648 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
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| Environment | | marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial |
| Fossil range | | recent only |
| Feedingtype | |
deposit feeder [details]
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| Links | | To Barcode of Life
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (372 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To Macrozoobenthos communities of Svalbard
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
To ITIS
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| Notes | |
Description: Bristle worm with a short, thick fusiform body up to 55 mm long. The anterior end is cylindrical; the
posterior end is characterised by a ventral groove. The head is a simple smooth cone without
appendages, but does have groups of little bristles. The parapodia are in general reduced and bear finger-like gills on the hind part of the body. [details]
Distribution: Ophelia limacina is found on almost the entire Belgian part of the North Sea with a high frequency of occurrence. The distribution of the species is only (very) limited in the coastal zone (1976-1986 period) or in the eastern coastal zone (1994-2001 period). The maximum density of O. limacina is > 600 ind./m2 in the 1976-1986 period whereas this amount fell to a maximum of about 150 ind./m2 in the 1994-2001 period. [details]
Habitat: Ophelia limacina has a clear preference for coarse sediments: a high relative occurrence (> 40%) is reached in sediments with a median grain size of 300 to 550 µm. However, the species is absent in very coarse sediments (> 600 µm). Ophelia limacina tends to prefer sediments with low mud contents (optimum: 0 to 10%). The species does not occur in sediments with a mud content exceeding 20%. [details]
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| Images | | 
Picture of Ophelia limacina
added on 2004-06-17 - author: Hillewaert, H.
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Ophelia limacina
added on 2006-02-09 - author: Marko Herrmann
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Ophelia limacina
added on 2006-02-09 - author: Marko Herrmann
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Ophelia limacina
added on 2011-02-19 - author: Nozčres, Claude
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130494 |
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| | | Citation: Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Ophelia limacina (Rathke, 1843). 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=130494 on 2013-06-18 |
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