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Taxonomy
Myxicola sulcata Ehlers, 1912
Nomenclature
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Subfamily: SabellinaeGenus: Myxicola
SUMMARY
The genus Myxicola is unique among Sabellidae in having a typical mucous, transparent tube and in feeding by filtering at the sediment-water interface with the inferior side of the crown lying on the bottom.
Body length about 30 mm, about one-third composed by the tentacular crown, width up to 4 mm, 9 thoracic segments and 34 abdominal. Color pale yellow to white. Up to 13 pairs of radioles, fused at their basal area with a palmate membrane. Ventral pair of radioles shorter than remainder with lateral pectinations terminatine in a curved smooth tip.Collar absent. First segment extended forward to from a median riangular lobe at the base of radioles. Thoracic neurochaetae present from first segment, uncini absent. Abdomila uncini short, avicular shaped, extended almost all around the circumference of the segment, with two well developed fangs in frontal view, with the upper one smaller.