Johnson, 1901

Description:
Long, cylindrical body.
Prostomium broadly rounded anteriorly, with many ocelli. Dorsally between the prostomium and peristomium is a small groove. Nuchal slits short bent to semicircular.
22-23 chaetigers. Anterior 7 chaetigers with glandular bands anterior to the parapodia; in mid-body, glandular areas around parapodia. Posterior chaetigers again with glandular bands.
Notopodial chaetae are all capillaries.
Anterior 3 neuropodia with spines, other neuropodia bear hooks. Last posterior segment without chaetae (N. personata-detail).
Pygidium funnel-shaped equally circular, with 16-26 short filamentous to triangular cirri.

Size:
Up to 20-110 mm for 22-23 chaetigers.

Tube:
Occasionally fitted to the underside of stones.

Colour:
Anterior part more or less intensely brown or reddish stained or with one or more reddish cross-bands dorsally.

Habitat:
From lower eulittoral down to 300 m deep.

Distribution:
Arctic, North Pacific, North Atlantic up to English Channel, probably whole North Sea.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Annelida
Class Polychaeta
Order Capitellida
Family Maldanidae
Subfamily Nicomachinae
Genus Nicomache
Species Nicomache personata

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Nicomache personata Johnson, 1901

Scientific synonyms and common names

Nicomache personata Johnson, 1901
Nicomache maculata Arwidsson, 1911

Hartmann-Schröder, G., 1996. Annelida, Borstenwürmer, Polychaeta. Tierwelt Deutschlands, 58: 1-648.

Imajima, M. & Y. Shiraki, 1982. Maldanidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Japan (part 2). Bull. natn. Sci. Mus. Tokyo (Zool.), 8: 47-88.

Kirkegaard, J.B., 1996. Havbørsteorme II. Danmarks Fauna, 86: 1-451.

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