Rhodine gracilior (Tauber, 1879)

Size Up to 60 mm for 30 chaetigers. Color Light yellow-brown, transparent. Anterior glandular bands brownish-yellow to red especially on anterior segments, with white linings. Clearly white fields behind parapodia of the 4-9th chaetigers. 5th chaetiger shiny red. Habitat From the upper sublittoral down to 1000 m deep, in mud and sand. Living in a characteristic smooth clay-tubes with a thin parchment-like inner layer. Mobility Sedentary. Feeding Surface deposit feeder. Distribution Arctic.