(Tauber, 1879)
Description:
Body long with numerous segments. Anterior segments broader than the following ones.
Prostomium broadly conical with a small papilla at the tip. Two semicircular nuchal slits present. Without eyes or antenna.
Notopodial postchaetal lobes cirriform or finger-like, on the first chaetigers short, becoming longer in the branchial region, posteriorly thinner.
Chaetae are capillaries. Additionally
2-7 winged spines present on neuropodia, starting at chaetiger 20-26.
Up to 15 pairs of finger-shaped gills, starting at chaetiger 5-8; the median ones longest.
Pygidium conical with two cirri.
Size:
Up to 25 mm for 100 segments.
Colour:
Colourless.
Habitat:
Upper sublittoral to 2900 m.
Distribution:
North Sea to Baltic Sea. Possibly cosmopolitan.