pan

Polychaeta
mir

This web site was created within Arctic Ocean Diversity (ArcOD) project
and was financially supported by Polish Ministry of Science (project number: DPN/AD/1881/09 and 396/N-EOL-ENC/2009/0)
 

Lumbrineris mixochaeta Oug, 1998

Synonyms:
No synonyms.

Distinguishing characteristics
Body small.
Chatiger 1-10 with both simple and composite hooks.
Aciculae yellow to golden brown.
Maxillae III unidentate.

Species description
Body small, long and thin with up to 162 segments. Prostomium broadly conical, about as long as wide. Parapodia uniramous short and stout with presetal notopodial rudiment and postsetal flaplike lobe, diminishing to conical lobe in middle chetigers, in far posterior chetigers turning digitiform. All chaetigers with capillary chaetae. Anterior parapodia (chatiger 1-10) with both simple and composite hooks. Aciculae yellow to golden brown. Maxillae III unidentate. Two digitiform anal cirri.

Size
35 mm for 0.8 mm wide.

Color
Preserved specimens light brownish or tan, usually with darker prostomium.

Habitat
Soft mud.

Mobility
Mobile.

Feeding
Carnivore.
Predator/scavenger.
Omnivore.

Life cycle

Distribution
Arctic, European waters.


back