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Ophelia peresi Bellan & Picard, 1965 
AphiaID: 209881

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
Sources  original description: Bellan, G. and Picard, Jacques 1965. Contributions a l'étude des Polychètes de la région Tuléar (République Malagache). I. Ophelia peresi n.sp. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France, 90(2-3): 295-298. [details]

basis of record: Day, J.H. (1967). Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. Pp 459-842. [details]

additional source: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Madagascar [details]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Notes  Specimen: Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, POLY TYPE 595 [details]

Type locality: Tulear, Madagascar [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:209881
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-08-26 11:57:53Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
  
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  Citation: Fauchald, K. (2013). Ophelia peresi Bellan & Picard, 1965. 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=209881 on 2013-06-19
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