sentences: palpebrosa" ranges from Baffin Bay in the Canadian Arctic south to South Carolina (32°N ) in the western Atlantic, and from Iceland, Spitzbergen, Scotland, Barents Sea and the Kara Sea to the North Sea and off Ireland (51°N) in the eastern Atlantic.It usually lives at depths between 75 and 550 m. It is a benthic species and has a wide depth range, sometimes coming to within 10 m. of the surface in the fiords of north Norway and being recorded as deep as 1250 m.
  
  Fertilisation is internal and communal clusters of large numbers of eggs are laid.