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Ophryotrocha magnadentata

species of annelids

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ27943549 ↗
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Ophryotrocha magnadentata 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 longicollaris 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 magnadentata". The Encyclopedia of Life.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ophryotrocha magnadentata” 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.