Malmgren, 1867
Description:
Body elongate, cylindrical, tapering anteriorly and posteriorly. Prostomium conical or subspherical, usually without eyes, antennae or palps. Two large sensory pits or sensory papillae situated dorsally between prostomium and peristomium. Anterior segment without parapodia, more or less fused ventrally with the peristomium, forming longitudinal ridges of lower lip. Upper lip in form of pair of rounded cushions.
Parapodium with a single lobe, notopodia reduced to a bundle of fine aciculae. Without dorsal and ventral cirri. Parapodia with one or more aciculae and hooks.
Compound chaetae in anterior chaetigers only, or absent. In this area all hooks and compounds are hooded. Also winged capillary chaetae may be present. With or without gills above parapodia.
Pygidium with two or four cirri (Lumbrineridae).
Pharynx eversible with a pair of mandibles and four pairs of maxillae and short maxillary carriers.
Most lumbrinerids are carnivorous, feeding on living and dead animals. They commonly burrow in sandy and muddy sediments, creeping around without a constructing permanent burrows. Pelagic larvae absent.
After: George and Hartmann-Schröder, 1985.
For identification to species level, jump to the Picture key: Page 73: Lumbrineridae
The following taxa of this family occur in the region:
Genus Abyssoninoe
Genus Lumbrineris
Abyssoninoe hibernica
Lumbrineris agastos
Lumbrineris aniara
Lumbrineris fragilis
Lumbrineris gracilis
Lumbrineris latreilli
Lumbrineris magnidentata
Lumbrineris tetraura