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Ophryotrocha longicollaris

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Polychaeta

Family
  
Dorvilleidae

Phylum
  
Annelida

Order
  
Eunicida

Genus
  
Ophryotrocha

Ophryotrocha longicollaris is a species of polychaete worm, first found on deep sea whale fall and wood fall habitats in the north-east Pacific, off the southern Californian coast. This species and Ophryotrocha magnadentata are sister species; together with O. nauarchus and O. flabella, it falls in a clade including O. globopalpata and Exallopus jumarsi from the shallow North Atlantic.

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Ophryotrocha longicollaris Wikipedia