Pectinaria hyperborea (Malmgren, 1866)
Synonyms:
Cistenides hyperborea (Malmgren, 1866)

Size Up to 55 mm. Color Alive transparent greyish with red gills. In alcohol yellowish, often with a reddish-brown coating on flat anterodorsal surface and chaetae of segment 3. Habitat Vertical distribution 2-250 m, mainly at depths less than 50 m. Mobility Mobile. Feeding Surface deposit feeder. Distribution Arctic, North Pacific, North Atlantic to Skagerrak, Canadian Atlantic, New England, Alaskan and Canadian Arctic, Siberian Arctic, Bering Sea, Alaskan Pacific, Sea of Okhotsk, Japan, East Greenland, Iceland, the Faeroes, Svalbard, Northern Norway, Barents Sea.