Golfingia elongata (Keferstein, 1862)
A tropical and boreal speciesĀ rare in the Arctic, dwelling hard ground gravel, sand, shelf rock, less often silt and clay and mud.
Size
- Common trunk length: 1-15mm.
Color & Characteristics
- Whitish, often with tints of pink or gray.
- Four retractors.
- Smooth, slender, lustrous worm.
- 8-20 rings of slender hooks.
- Short introvert that carries 20-36 tentacles in a single disk.
Habitat & Distribution
- It prefers the upper sublittoral.
- It often inhabits hard ground gravel, sand, shelf rock, less often silt and clay and mud.
- It is rare in the Arctic zone but found in Greenland, Spitsbergen, Iceland.
- In Svalbard found at depths from 79-162m.
Feeding
- Deposit feeder.
Life cycle
- Trochophore larva.
Page Author: Monika Kendra
Created: August 11, 2010