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MARINE WORMS OF THE PHYLUM SIPUNCULA IN FAROESE WATERS
Fig. 1. Records of Aspidosiphon muelleri, Golfingia v. vulgaris, Nephasoma a. abyssorum and Nephasoma eremita.
Order GOLFINGIIFORMES
Family GOLFINGIIDAE
Genus Golfingia Lankester, 1885
Golfingia vulgaris vulgarís (de Blainville,
1827)
Synonyms numerous: see Murina (1977: 217); Cutler
(1994: 75-76).
Good description: Stephen and Edmonds (1972: 231,
figs. 26 A-D).
Previous records: None.
BIOFAR stations: 19, 736, 745, 1390 (4 stations and 4
specimens in total), fig. 1.
Temperature: 6.5-7.8 HC. Salinity 35.2%o.
Depth range: 15-1112 m.
Bottom type: sandy detritic bottom mixed with ooze,
sandy mud with gravel, red clay.
General distribution: Cosmopolite in the northern
hemisphere. Eurybathic species (0-5853 m). In Arctic
waters: Barents Sea, White Sea, Laptiv Sea, Chuckchee
Sea. Indian Ocean: Zanzibar, Malay Archipelago; Chile,
Kerguelen Isles; Pacific Ocean: from Bering Strait to
the southern coast of Japan, and from Alaska to San
Francisco;
Atlantic distribution: Spitzbergen, Greenland, Davis
Strait, Iceland, Scandinavia, Norwegian coast, British
Isles, along the European coast from Kattegat, Skagerrak
to the south coast of Spain, West Africa, Gulf of Guinea;
Mediterranean: along the south coast of France, Alboran,
Balearic Isles, Ligurian coast, Corsica, Adriatic Sea,
Tyrrhenian and Aegean Seas, Levantine.
Genus Nephasoma Pergament, 1940
Nephasoma (N.) abyssorum abyssorum
(Koren & Danielssen, 1875)
Synonyms numerous: see Murina (1977: 187); Cutler
(1994: 89).