Leitoscoloplos mammosus Mackie, 1987

Synonyms:
Scoloplos acutus (Verrill, 1873)

Distinguishing characteristics
Prostomium sharply conical, longer than broad.
Thoracic chaetae all crenulate capillaries.
Mammiform shape, in profile, of the thoracic neuropodial postchaetal lobes.

Species description
Body long, anteriorly broad and flat, posteriorly slightly flattened dorsally and rounded ventrally. Prostomium sharply conical, longer than broad. Thorax with 14-15 chaetigers. Thoracic notopodial postchaetal lobes triangular, neuropodial postchaetal lobes mammiform with a conspicuous medially inserted triangular process. Thoracic chaetae all crenulate capillaries. Abdominal notopodia with crenulate capillaries and forked chaetae. Abdominal neuropodia bilobed, with weakly crenulate capillary chaetae. Branchiae, sharply pointed, start at chaetiger 9-11. Pygidium with 2 long cirri.

Size
Up to 35 mm for 127 chaetigers.
Color

Habitat

Mobility
Mobile.

Feeding
Surface deposit feeder.

Life cycle

Distribution
European waters, North America (Chesapeake Bay to Baffin Island), North Atlantic, Barents Sea, White Sea, Greenland.