Description: Body relatively broad, with three body-regions. Prostomium composed of eight rings, with palps and antennae forming a cross at the tip. Anterior 45-53 parapodiauniramous with a prechaetal lamella that is big to about chaetiger 5 and rapidly becoming smaller in the following segments and a postchaetal lamella that becomes bigger. Following segments until about segment 70 with gradually developing notopodia. Posterior parapodiabiramous with a small notopodium with a prechaetal lamella and a short postchaetal lamella. Posterior neuropodia with short prechaetal and longer postchaetal lamellae. Dorsal and ventral cirri finger-like. Notopodialchaetae rather short capillaries. Neuropodialchaetae compound. Two kind of papillae on pharynx: some semiglobular, some bifid. Macrognaths with 3 teeth. About 24 X-shaped micrognaths. 11-18 chevrons on each side.
Size: Up to 175 mm long for 300 segments.
Colour: In alcohol bright yellowish, metallic.
Distribution: Eastern Atlantic, Norwegian and Swedish coasts of the Skagerrak.
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Annelida Class Polychaeta Order Phyllodocida Superfamily Glyceroidae Family Goniadidae Genus Goniada Species Goniada pallida
