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Pacific Arctic Benthic Species
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Eteone longa (Fabricius, 1780)

Size
Up to 160 mm for 350 chaetigers.

Color
Living animals transparent yellowish white; eyes dark red. Preserved animals yellowish with three more or less distinct darker longitudinal lines dorsally, one median and two lateral. Dorsal and ventral cirri dark.

Habitat
Muddy sand and mud.
Intertidal to at least 120 m.

Mobility
Mobile.

Feeding
Deposit feeder.
Omnivore, predator, scavenger.

Life cycle
Breeding occurs from March to May. The eggs are deposited in a cocoon.

Distribution
Arctic-boreal, both from the Atlantic and the Pacific. North Sea.
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