worm
Sipuncula
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Golfingia vulgaris vulgaris (De Blainville, 1827)

A common cosmopolitan species dwelling in silt, mud and sand


Golfingia vulgaris

Golfingia vulgaris hooks

Golfingia vulgaris hooks detail
Synonymy
Sipunculus vulgaris de Blainville, 1827
Phascolosoma vulgare Keferstein, 1862

Distinguishing characteristics
Four retractors.
Introvert is shorter than the trunk with numerous tentacles and scattered, spinelike hooks.
Both ends of the trunk are heavy papillated.

Size
Common trunk length: 10-50 mm
Maximum trunk length: 200 mm

Color
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

Habitat
Usually it inhabits silt, mud, different types of sand and clay in deep waters

Feeding
Deposit feeder

Life cycle
Trochophore larva

Distribution
In the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean. Absent from western Atlantic Ocean and rare in the eastern Pacific. From depths of 5 to 2000 m, but rare in the waters deeper than 500 m.

References

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