Webster, 1879
Description: Prostomium bluntly conical, with two or four eyes, without antenna. Two long palps present. First segment with a ventral ‘lip’ and two dorsal, cylindrical gills, quite similar to the palps. Second chaetiger with a dorsal collar between the notopodia. 7th or 9th and following neuropodia with capillary chaetae, 4-10 hooded hooks with 4 distal teeth and a bigger subdistal tooth, and a spine. Notopodial chaetae capillaries (S. benedicti-parapodium). Pygidium weakly bilobed.
Size: Up to 10 mm for 50 segments.
Colour: White or reddish.
Habitat: Brackish waters.
Distribution: Brackish waters around the North Pacific, North Atlantic to Mediterranean, Black Sea, North Sea and Baltic Sea. |