Southern, 1914

Description:
Body short and thick.
8 thoracic and 13 abdominal segments.
Each half of the crown is webbed for two-thirds of its length with eight radioli and five tentacular filaments without side-branches. Collar straight, dorsally incised. Two short palps. Eyes absent.
The first chaetiger with notopodial chaetae only. The following thoracic segments with three kind of chaetae on notopodia: 1) narrowly winged capillary chaetae, 2) spatulate chaetae, 3) short bayonet chaetae. Neuropodia bear hooks.
Abdominal neuropodial chaetae are long, thin, winged and geniculate capillary chaeate. Notopodia with uncini (C. filicaudata-detail).
Pygidium with a short filament close to the anus .

Size:
Up to 11 mm.

Tube:
Thin, encrusted with sand.

Colour:
White to yellowish.

Habitat:
On soft substrata.

Distribution:
East Atlantic to South Africa. Kattegat.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Annelida
Class Polychaeta
Order Sabellida
Family Sabellidae
Subfamily Fabriciinae
Genus Chone
Species Chone filicaudata

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Chone filicaudata Southern, 1914

Scientific synonyms and common names

Chone filicaudata Southern, 1914

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

Nelson-Smith, A., Knight-Jones, P. & E.W. Knight-Jones, 1990. Annelida. In: Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (eds.). The Marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe, vol I: 201-306.

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