Ophelia roscoffensis Augener, 1910: a new polychaete record in Italian waters

By

Mancini, Emanuele
Tiralongo, Francesco
Ventura, Daniele
Bonifazi, Andrea

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2019-6-14

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

15

Series / Issue

Issue: 3

Pages

489--495

Subjects

first record , Italian waters , Mediterranean Sea , Opheliidae , Posidonia oceanica bed , Tyrrhenian Sea

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/15.3.489

 

Abstract

Ophelia roscoffensis Augener, 1910 is an opheliid worm identifiable by the number of anterior abranchiate chaetigers and the number of the gill pairs. Although it was already reported in the Mediterranean Sea, it has never been found in the Italian waters. This study represents the first record of Ophelia roscoffensis in the Italian waters. A total of 18 specimens were collected along the coast of Civitavecchia (Tyrrhenian Sea) in a Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile bed at a depth of 7 m.