(Saint-Joseph, 1894)

Description:
Body is long, vermiform, with 18 chaetigers.
Prostomium small, with a big, oblique plate and a short rim with lateral incisions. Nuchal slits short. Eyes absent.
Glandular bands are clear on segments 1-3, less discernible bands on segments 4-6, broad glandular bands on segments 7-8.
4th chaetiger with a laterally incised collar. The following segments are very long.
Notopodia are short with two kind of capillary chaetae: chaetae with narrow wings and finely feathery chaetae.
Neuropodia are present from the first chaetiger onwards. 3 anterior neuropodia with 1-3 large spines, the following ones with hooks (C. cincta-detail).
The most posterior segments without chaetae.
Pygidium with a short funnel, with a crown of equal cirri.

Size:
Up to 200 mm for 18 segments.

Tube:
Animals occupy a straight tube, which is encrusted with sand grains. Tube is burried in the sendiment.

Colour:
Red anteriorly, brown posteriorly.

Habitat:
In sand. Low water.

Distribution:
Kattegat, Skagerrak.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Annelida
Class Polychaeta
Order Capitellida
Family Maldanidae
Subfamily Euclymeninae
Genus Clymenella
Species Clymenella cincta

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Clymenella cincta (Saint-Joseph, 1894)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Maldane? cincta Saint-Joseph, 1894

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

Saint-Joseph, A. de, 1894. Les annélides polychètes de côtes de Dinard. Ann. Sci. Nat. Paris, (7) 17: 1- 395.

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