Polychaete

Goniada norvegica

• Group: Other

A predatory bristleworm of soft seabeds from about eighteen metres down, it everts a long muscular proboscis tipped with tiny jaws to seize prey. Like others in its family it spends most of its life ploughing through sediment in search of smaller animals.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Annelida › Polychaeta › Phyllodocida › Goniadidae › Goniada

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 130141.