TY  - JOUR
A1  - Parapar, Julio
A1  - Al-Kandari, Manal
A1  - Barroso, María
A1  - Moreira, Juan
T1  - The genus Ophelina Örsted, 1843 (Annelida: Opheliidae) in the coast of Kuwait (northern Indian Ocean), with the description of a new species
T2  - European journal of taxonomy
N2  - Two species of the genus Ophelina Örsted, 1843 (Annelida, Opheliidae) are reported from the coast of Kuwait (Arabian Gulf) after specimens collected in the intertidal and shallow subtidal, namely Ophelina arabica sp. nov. and Ophelina grandis (Pillai, 1961). The new species is mainly characterised by features of the anal tube, which is provided with about 25 annulations at each side; the ventral margins are fully fused while dorsal margins are fused at most of their length but are free at the distal end in the shape of a conspicuous incision; the posterior end is opened with free margins; the anal tube also lacks marginal papillae but bears a pair of basal papillae and an unpaired anal cirrus attached to ventral margin at mid-length. Ophelina grandis is reported for the first time in the Arabian Gulf; specimens are fully described and compared with similar species. A key for species of Ophelina in the Indo-Pacific, Southern Asia, Indo-Malay Archipelago and Australia, is also provided.
T3  - European journal of taxonomy  : EJT - 870:1-19 
KW  - taxonomy
KW  - Polychaeta
KW  - species diversity
KW  - Kuwait
KW  - SEM
Y1  - 2023
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/69655
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-696555
SN  - 2118-9773
VL  - 2023
IS  - 870
SP  - 1
EP  - 29
PB  - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
CY  - Paris
ER  -