Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Eunicida > Family Onuphidae > Subfamily Onuphinae > Genus Onuphis

Onuphis opalina (Verrill, 1873)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Onuphis*	Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Nothria opalina*	Verrill, 1873	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: フツウイソメ

Literature

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.
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Maekawa, Nobuyuki; Hayashi, Isao. (1999). Taxonomic study on the genus Onuphis (Polychaeta, Onuphidae) from Japan and adjacent seas, with descriptions of six new species. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series A (Zoology). 25(3): 163-214.
additional source	Hobson, Katharine D. 1971. Some polychaetes of the superfamily Eunicea from the north Pacific and north Atlantic Oceans. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 83(47): 527-544.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Onuphis opalina (Verrill, 1873). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130473