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Fig. 2. Records of Nephasoma lilljeborgi (Danielssen & Koren, 1880)
Good description: Theel (1905: 78, pl. 5. figs. 71-75;
pl. 6, figs. 76-81; pl. 14, fig. 206); Murina (1977: 188,
fig. 124).
Previous records: None.
RIOFAR stations: 41,295,478,492, 523, 762,763,778,
779 (9 stations and 10 specimens in total), ftg. 1.
Temperature: -0.60 - 8.5 °C. Salinity: 35.15-35.30%o.
Depth range: 259-973 m.
Bottom type: sandy silt, muddy sand.
General distribution: Arctico-boreal eurybathic species
(depth range 95-5300 m).
Common in the north-eastern Atlantic and Arctic,
Alaska;
Atlantic distribution: widely distributed in the northern
hemisphere, Spitzbergen, Barents sea, Kola Gulf, Laptiv
Sea, Kara Sea, Chuckchee Sea, Bergenfjord, Ireland,
Helgoland Bight, English Channel, Biscay Gulf,
northern coast of France; Mediterranean: Alboran Sea,
Libyan coast, off Corsica, Ligurian and Aegean seas, off
Morocco.
Nephasoma eremita (Sars, 1851)
Synonyms: Phascolosoma eremita Selenka et al. (1883:
35), Golfmgia (Nephasoma) eremita Murina (1977:
195); Nephasoma eremita Cutler (1994: 94).
Good description: Wesenberg-Lund (1930: 28, pl. 5,
figs. 53-54); Murina (1977: 195, ftg. 132); Cutler (1994:
94-95, fig. I9A).
Previous records: None.
BIOFAR stations: 421 (1 specimen), fig. 1.
Temperature: 3.1 °C. Salinity: 35.10%o.
Depth range: 597 m.
Bottom type: sandy silt, muddy sand.
General distribution: Widespread and probably bipolar
(deplh range 0-3867 m). Circumpolar in Arctic,
Antarctica, Commonwealth Bay, Eastern Pacific,
Capetown, Falklands Islands; Atlantic distribution:
Spitzbergen, western attd eastern Greenland (records of
“Ingolf Expedition), North Atlantic, Novaya Zemlya,
Kola Peninsula, Finmark, Iceland, near Canada, west
coast of USA, in shallow waters as far as Massachusetts
Bay, Cape Cod.