Golfingia vulgaris vulgaris (De Blainville, 1827)
A common cosmopolitan species dwelling in silt, mud and sand.
Size
- Common trunk length: 10-50 mm
- Maximum trunk length: 200 mm
Color & Characteristics
- The mid-trunk is smooth and white or gray or gray-yellow.
- Both ends of the trunk are darker than the mid trunk and heavy papillated
- Four retractors
- Introvert is shorter than the trunk with numerous tentacles and scattered, spinelike hooks
- Both ends of the trunk are heavy papillated
Habitat & Distribution
- From depths of 5 to 2000 m
- Rare in the waters deeper than 500 m
- Exists over wider ranges of temperature (eurythermic) and salinity (euryhaline)
- Usually it inhabits silt, mud, different types of sand and clay in deep waters
- Rare in the Arctic zone
- In Svalbard found at depths from 64-374 m
Feeding
- Deposit feeder
Life cycle
- Trochophore larva
Page Author: Mary Wicksten
Created: August 10, 2010
