Peniagone vitrea

Description

General: Transparent; flaccid; two short dorsal fused parapodia; no sharp 90 degree inflection at "head"; small, hard to see feeding tentacles.

Geographic Information

Habitat description: Benthic, soft sediment.

Additional Information

Consulting taxonomist: Andrey Gebruk and Antonina (Rogacheva) Kremenetskaia, P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow Russia.

Consulting taxonomist: David Pawson, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.

References

Encyclopedia of Life

Tree of Life

World Register of Marine Species

National Center for Biotechnology Information

Lauerman, L.M.L., R.S. Kaufmann, and K.L. Smith Jr. (1996). Distribution and abundance of epibenthic megafauna at a long time-series station in the abyssal northeast Pacific. Deep Sea Research 1, 43: 1075-1103.

Hansen, B. (1975). Systematics and biology of the deep-sea holothurians: Part 1 Elasipoda. Scandinavian Science Press, Copenhagen, Denmark. 262 pp.