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Laonice cirrata (M. Sars 1851)

Description

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Laonice cirrata (Sars, 1851)
Plate III, figs. 13-15

Aonides cirrata Fauvel, 1914, pp. 220-222, pl. 20, figs. 4.-9. Review.

Laonice cirrata Fauvel, 1936, p. 29. Alexander Island.

Monro, 1939, p. 125. Lars and Ingrid Christensen coasts, Mac. Robertson Land, and Adélie Coast, in 219-1206 m.

Diagnosis: Size of antarctic specimens not stated; others from western Europe large, attain length of 90-120 mm. Body colorless, with brown intestine. Prostomium (fig. 13) rounded in front, with an occip­ital antenna; 2 pairs of eyes in front of nuchal area. Branchiae present from second setiger and continued posteriorly to setiger 34-40; well separated from noto­podial postsetal lobe. Interramal pouches (fig. 14) first present at setiger 31 or already at setiger 10; continued through numerous segments. Hooded uncini first present from setigers 35-40, distally bidentate (fig. 15), the main fang at an acute angle to the shaft, and hood distally rounded.

Distribution: North and South Atlantic and Pacific oceans; antarctic and indopacific regions; cosmopoli­tan; in shallow to abyssal depths.”

(Hartman, 1966)

Additional information

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Polychaeta larva, whose adults are not listed before, found in plankton samples

Reference

Harms, J. (1993). Check list of species (algae, invertebrates and vertebrates) found in the vicinity of the island of Helgoland (North Sea, German Bight): a review of recent records. Helgoländer Meeresunters. 47: 1-34. [p. 25, tab. 3: Gastrosaccus spinifer, Mysis relicta, Praunus inermis, Schistomysis kervillei, Schistomysis spiritus.

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Distribution

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Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), Saguenay Fjord, northern Gaspe waters, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary, lower St. Lawrence estuary, Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway), lower North Shore; Cobscook Bay to Cape Cod

Reference

North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

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Habitat

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bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary

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North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

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Habitat

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Known from seamounts and knolls

Reference

Stocks, K. 2009. Seamounts Online: an online information system for seamount biology. Version 2009-1. World Wide Web electronic publication.

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