Støp-Bowitz, 1945
Description: Body long, cylindrical, with fine secondary annulations. Prostomium bluntly conical with a small median process at its tip and 2 large nuchal organs. Eyes absent. Parapodia with short prechaetal lamellae and small ventral cirri, those of the anterior 2-3 parapodia very long. Notopodial chaetae longer than the neuropodial ones. Gills cirriform, along the whole length of the body, except for the first chaetiger and the 4 last ones. Gills on the posterior segments very long and meet on the dorsal mid-line. Pygidial tube funnel-shaped, about as long as wide, with 25 rings and the margins fringed with papillae. There often is a long pygidial cirrus coming out of the funnel.
Size: Up to 50 mm for 61 chaetigers.
Colour: In alcohol, yellowish or brownish violet.
Habitat: In mud or muddy sand, between 30 and 550 m.
Distribution: Northeast Atlantic; Norwegian and Swedish coasts. |