Oersted, 1843

Description:
Body long, slender, with numerous segments.
Prostomium short, composed of ca. eight rings, with palps and antennae forming a cross at the tip.
Segments triannulate, mid-body segments biannulate.
Parapodia are short with two triangular prechaetal lamellae and a single, rounded postchaetal lamella. Dorsal cirri are small, round. Ventral cirri short and triangular (G. capitata-detail ).
Notopodial chaetae are capillaries, neuropodial chaetae are compound with finely toothed blade.
Gills absent.
Pharynx with papillae of two kinds: rounded and tall cones.
Aileron with an inner branch united to the outer branch by an interramal plate.

Size:
Unknown.

Colour:
Greyish, flushed with pink anteriorly.

Habitat:
Shallow sublittoral.

Distribution:
Off Norway, Greenland and Spitsbergen.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Annelida
Class Polychaeta
Order Phyllodocida
Superfamily Glyceroidae
Family Glyceridae
Genus Glycera
Species Glycera capitata

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Glycera capitata Örsted, 1843

Scientific synonyms and common names

Glycera capitata Oersted, 1843
Glycera setosa Oersted, 1843
Glycera mulleri Quatrefages, 1866

Kirkegaard, J.B., 1992. Havbørsteorme I. Danmarks Fauna, 83: 1-416.

O'Connor, B.D.S., 1987. The Glyceridae (Polychaeta) of the North Atlantic and Mediterranean, with descriptions of two new species. Jour. of Nat. Hist., 21: 167-189.

Uschakov, P.V., 1955. Polychaete worms of the far-eastern seas of the USSR. Keys to the fauna of the USSR, 56: 1-443.

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