WoRMS taxon details
Ophelia limacina (Rathke, 1843)
AphiaID: 130494
AphiaID: 130494
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Scolecida (Subclass) > Opheliidae (Family) > Opheliinae (Subfamily) > Ophelia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Ophelia Savigny, 1818 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Ammotrypane limacina Rathke, 1843 (objective synonym) Ophelia eruciformis Johnston, 1865 (subjective synonym) Ophelia taurica Bobretzky, 1881 (subjective synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Rathke H. (1843). Beiträge zur fauna Norwegens. Verhandlungen Kaiserlichen Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Akademie Naturforscher, Breslau, 20, 1, pp. 1-264, 264b, 264c; 12 pls., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11613 [details] basis of record: Dumitrescu, Elena 1957. Contributti la studi Polichetor din Marea Neagra, litoral rominesc. Bull.Akad.RPRST., Sec.Biol., Ser. Zoology, 9: 119-130. [details] basis of record: Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 214-231 (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Malmgren, A. J. 1867. Annulata Polychaeta Spetsbergiae, Groenlandiae, Islandiae et Scandinaviae hactenus cognita. Ex Officina Frenckelliana, Helsingfors. 127pp, & 115 plates, available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/13358 [details] additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] 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] additional source: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details] source of synonymy: Fauvel, P. 1907. Première note préliminaire sur les Polychètes provenant des campagnes de l'Hirondelle et de la Princesse-Alice ou déposées dans le Musée Océanographique de Monaco. Bulletin de l'Institute océanographique, 107: 1-34. [details] source of synonymy: Tebble, Norman 1952. On three species of the genus Ophelia (Polychaeta) from British and adjacent waters. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 5: 553-571. [details] redescription: Jirkov, I.A. 2001. [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Moskva, Yanus-K, 1-632, available online at http://hydro.bio.msu.ru/Personal/Jirkov.htm [details] original description (from synonym): Johnston, George. 1865. A catalogue of the British non-parasitical worms in the collection of the British Museum. 1-365. British Museum. London. [See also separate entry for Baird supplement], available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12291 [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Bobretzky, N. 1881. [On the annelids of the Black Sea]. Kiev odschestva estest, Zapisky, 6: 183-212. [details] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Census of Marine Life (2012). SYNDEEP: Towards a first global synthesis of biodiversity, biogeography and ecosystem function in the deep sea. Unpublished data (datasetID: 39), available online at http://www.comlsecretariat.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/SYNDEEP-Towards-a-first-global-synthesis-of-biodiversity-biogeography-and-ecosystem-function-in-the-deep-sea-Eva-Ramirez-Llodra-et-al..pdf [details] | ||||||||||
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Variety Ophelia limacina var. roscoffensis Augener, 1910 Subspecies Ophelia limacina roscoffensis Augener, 1910 accepted as Ophelia roscoffensis Augener, 1910 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Grand Banks [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Manicouagan [details] North East Atlantic [details] North Sea [details] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Saguenay Fjord [details] Saint Lawrence River [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux (not certain) [details] | ||||||||||
| Feedingtype | deposit feeder [details] | ||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: Females with ripe eggs have been observed in spring and summer. The planktonic larvae occur in waters with a salinity down to 13%. O. limacina is a typical non-selective deposit feeder. The lack of food specialisation of adults contrasts sharply with the selectivity of juveniles for certain types of substrate. The species is food for demersal fish (Hartmann-Schröder, 1971; Wolff, 1973; Curtis, 1977; Kirkegaard, 1978; Fauchald & Jumars, 1979). [details] 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] Distribution: O. limacina is found in the Southern Bight, its distribution extending into the marine and central part of the Westerschelde. The polychaete also occurs north of the Wadden islands, at the Cleaver Bank and more offshore at the Dogger Bank, but is absent from the Oyster Ground. [details] Distribution: Saguenay Fjord, northern Gaspe waters, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: Eastern Bradelle Valley), downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary, lower St. Lawrence estuary, Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway); Lower North Shore [details] Habitat: bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Habitat: The species prefers medium to coarse sands mixed with gravel or shell fragments. Muddy sediments seem to be avoided. [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] Morphology: Body short, thick and spindle-shaped. Body maximally 50 mm in length and divided into 40 segments. The front part is cylindrical, while the hind part of the body has a ventral groove. The head is pointed, without appendages. Parapodia are inconspicuous and bear finger-like gills on the posterior part of the body. O. limacina is pink to flesh-coloured (Hartmann-Schröder, 1971). [details] | ||||||||||
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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: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=130494 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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