Kinberg, 1866
Description:
Long, slender worms with numerous segments. The anterior end bears a small, elongated, tapering and multiannulate prostomium at the end of which are two minute antennae and two similar palps. Peristomium is limited to lips. The family Goniadidae is distinguished from Glyceridae by the chitinous chevrons ranged along the base of the thick and long eversible proboscis and by the circlet of many-toothed jaw-pieces (micrognaths and macrognaths) around the terminal end of the proboscis (Goniadidae).
First segment is similar to following ones, without tentacular cirri. In first several segments, parapodia with well-developed neuropodia and notopodia represented by dorsal cirri only. Next parapodia biramous with notopodia nearly as large as neuropodia. Dorsal and ventral cirri present. Gills absent. Chaetae compounds and variously ornamented capillaries.
Pygidium with two cirri.
Active carnivores, which inhabit sandy and muddy bottoms.
After: Fauchald and Rouse, 1997, Hayward and Ryland, 1990 and Kirkegaard, 1992.
For identification to species level, jump to the Picture key: Page 99: Goniadidae
The following taxa of this family occur in the region:
Genus Glycinde
Genus Goniada
Genus Goniadella
Glycinde nordmanni
Goniada maculata
Goniada norvegica
Goniada pallida
Goniadella bobretzkii