Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Scolecida > Family Opheliidae > Subfamily Opheliinae > Genus Ophelia

Ophelia barquii Fauvel, 1927

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ophelia*	Savigny, 1822	accepted genus name
*Pseudophelia*	Katzmann, 1973	generic synonym

Species group names

*Ophelia radiata barquii*	Fauvel, 1927	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Pilato, Giovanni, Belcastro, G. and Cassibba, R. 1978. Il valore specifico di Ophelia barquii Fauvel, 1927 (Annelida, Polychaeta). Animalia 5: 395-403.
additional source	Maltagliati, Ferruccio; Casu, Marco; Castelli, Alberto. (2004). Morphological and genetic evidence supports the existence of two species in the genus Ophelia (Annelida, Polychaeta) from the Western Mediterranean. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 83(1): 101-113.
additional source	Maltagliati, Ferruccio; Casu, Marco; Lai, Tiziana; Sareri, Daniela Iraci; Casu, Daniela; Galletti, Marco Curini; Cantone, Grazia; Castelli, Alberto. (1999). Taxonomic distinction of Ophelia barquii and O. bicornis (Annelida: Polychaeta) in the Mediterranean as revealed by ISSR markers and the number of nephridiopores. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 85(4): 835-841.
additional source	Bellan, G.; Dauvin, J.-C. (1991). Phenetic and biogeographic relationships in Ophelia (Polychaeta Opheliidea). Bulletin of Marine Science. 48(2): 544-558.
additional source	Fassari, Giuseppe. (1998). Censimento dei Policheti dei Mari Italiani: Opheliidae Malmgren, 1867. Atti della Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali, Memorie, Serie B. 105: 45-49.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Ophelia barquii Fauvel, 1927. 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:886623