MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Ophelia rathkei McIntosh, 1908

WoRMS taxon details

Ophelia rathkei McIntosh, 1908

AphiaID

130496 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130496)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Ophelia Savigny, 1822

Original name

Ophelia rathkei McIntosh, 1908

Synonymised names

Ophelia cluthensis McGuire, 1935 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)

Ophelia remanei Augener, 1939 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

McIntosh, W.C. (1908). Notes from the Gatty Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 1(8): 373-387., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24296104
page(s): 375-376 [details]

Type data

Holotype , geounit United Kingdom

Holotype, geounit United Kingdom [details]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Ophelia rathkei McIntosh, 1908. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=130496 on 2025-04-03

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Bellan, Gérard

2008-03-26 11:36:43Z

changed

Fauchald, Kristian

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description McIntosh, W.C. (1908). Notes from the Gatty Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 1(8): 373-387., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24296104
page(s): 375-376 [details]

original description (of Ophelia cluthensis McGuire, 1935) McGuire, I. P. 1935. Note on a new species of polychaete (Ophelia cluthensis). Scottish Naturalist, 212: 45-46. [details]

original description (of Ophelia remanei Augener, 1939) Augener, Hermann. (1939). Beitrag zur Polychaetenfauna der Ostsee. Kieler Meeresforschungen. 3(1): 133-147. [details] Available for editors

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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: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Other

context source (Schelde) van Eck, G. Th. M.; Holzhauer, H. (2007). Monitoring van de effecten van de verruiming 48'/43': MOVE eindrapport 2006 (Rapport 10). Rapport RIKZ = Report RIKZ, 2007.003. RIKZ: Middelburg. 64 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

context source (BeRMS 2020) Bio-environmental research group; Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries research (ILVO), Belgium; (2016): Macrobenthos monitoring in function of aggregate extraction activities in the Belgian part of the North Sea. [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., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]

additional source 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.
page(s): 567 [details]

additional source de Kluijver, M. J.; Ingalsuo, S. S.; de Bruyne, R. H. (2000). Macrobenthos of the North Sea [CD-ROM]: 1. Keys to Mollusca and Brachiopoda. World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series. Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI): Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 3-540-14706-3. 1 cd-rom. (look up in IMIS) [details]