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Ophryotrocha longicollaris

species of Polychaeta

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJun 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ28431137 ↗
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Ophryotrocha longicollaris is a species of polychaete worm, first found on deep sea whale fall and wood fall habitats in the north-east Pacific, off the southern Californian coast. This species and Ophryotrocha magnadentata are sister species; together with O. nauarchus and O. flabella, it falls in a clade including O. globopalpata and Exallopus jumarsi from the shallow North Atlantic.

References

Further reading

Ravara, Ascensão, et al. "First account on the diversity of Ophryotrocha (Annelida, Dorvilleidae) from a mammal-fall in the deep-Atlantic Ocean with the description of three new species." Systematics and Biodiversity 13.6 (2015): 555-570.

Wiklund, Helena. Evolution of annelid diversity at whale-falls and other marine ephemeral habitats. 2009.

External links

"Ophryotrocha longicollaris". The Encyclopedia of Life.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ophryotrocha longicollaris” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.