Ophelina cf. juhazi Wiklund, Neal, Glover, Drennan, Rabone & Dahlgren, 2019

Gunton, Laetitia M., Kupriyanova, Elena K., Alvestad, Tom, Avery, Lynda, Blake, James A., Biriukova, Olga, Boeggemann, Markus, Borisova, Polina, Budaeva, Nataliya, Burghardt, Ingo, Capa, Maria, Georgieva, Magdalena N., Glasby, Christopher J., Hsueh, Pan-Wen, Hutchings, Pat, Jimi, Naoto, Kongsrud, Jon A., Langeneck, Joachim, Meissner, Karin, Murray, Anna, Nikolic, Mark, Paxton, Hannelore, Ramos, Dino, Schulze, Anja, Sobczyk, Robert, Watson, Charlotte, Wiklund, Helena, Wilson, Robin S., Zhadan, Anna & Zhang, Jinghuai, 2021, Annelids of the eastern Australian abyss collected by the 2017 RV ' Investigator' voyage, ZooKeys 1020, pp. 1-198 : 1

Ophelina cf. juhazi Wiklund, Neal, Glover, Drennan, Rabone & Dahlgren, 2019

Diagnosis.

Prostomium conical (sunken in specimen) with teardrop-shaped palpode. Eyes absent. Deep ventral and lateral grooves. Parapodia small lobes with few chaetae. Chaetae all capillaries. Branchiae absent. Anal funnel cylindrical, length of last four chaetigers. Colour in ethanol pale yellow.

Remarks.

The specimen is morphologically similar to O. juhaz , but is found as a sister clade to it in initial COI and 16S phylogenies ( Ramos 2019). Differs by having 30 chaetigers compared with 27 in O. juhazi .

Records.

1 specimen. Suppl. material 1: op. 42 (NHMUK).