Sars, 1872

Description:
Body small with 7 or 8 thoracic and about 30 abdominal segments.
Each half of the crown webbed for about two-thirds of its length. Up to 8 radioli on each side. Two palps. Two groups of eyes.
Collar oblique in side-view with its margin covering the base of the crown, fused to a mid-dorsal groove and without a ventral cleft.
The first chaetiger with notopodial winged capillaries only . The following thoracic notopodia with capillaries and spatulate chaetae. Neuropodial chaetae are hooks.
Abdominal neuropodial chaetae are winged, slightly geniculate capillaries. Uncini present on notopodia (C. longocirrata-detail).

Size:
Up to 15 mm.

Tube:
Thin, encrusted with sand.

Colour:
White with yellow crown.

Habitat:
Unknown.

Distribution:
Eastern North Sea, Kattegat.

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

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Synonym of Chone duneri Malmgren, 1867

Scientific synonyms and common names

Chone longocirrata Sars, 1872

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

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