Golfingia (Golfingia) elongata (Keferstein 1862)

A tropical and boreal species rare in the Arctic, dwelling hard ground gravel, sand, shelf rock, less often silt and clay and mud

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.

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

Trochophore larva.

Deposit feeder.