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Sabella spallanzanii (Gmelin, 1791) 
AphiaID: 130969

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Sabellida (Order) > Sabellidae (Family) > Sabellinae (Subfamily) > Sabella (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Sabella Linnaeus, 1767
Synonymised
taxa
  Corallina Tubularia-Melitensis Ellis, 1755 (subjective synonym)
Sabella penicillus Linnaeus, 1767 (subjective synonym)
Serpula penicillus Linnaeus, 1758 (subjective synonym)
Spirographis spallanzanii (Viviani, 1805) (genus is a subjective synonym of Sabella)
Sources  original description: Gmelin, J. F. (1791) Vermes. In Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Editio Decima Tertia, Aucta Reformata. Tome 1, Pars 6 (Vermes). G.E. Deer, Leipzig, pp. 3021-3910., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details]

basis of record: Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 214-231 (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: Fattorini, Daniele and Regoli, Francesco 2006. Arsenic speciation in tissues of the Mediterranean Polychaete Sabella spallanzanii. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 23(8):1881-1887 [details]

basis of record: Wilson, R.S.; Hutchings, P.A. and Glasby, C.J. (eds) 2003. List of Polychaete species introduced to Australia. Polychaetes: An Interactive Identification Guide. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne [details]

additional source: Biosis; Index To Organism Names, available online at http://www.biosis.org.uk/ion/results.asp [details]

additional source: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details]

redescription: Knight-Jones, Phyllis and Perkins, Thomas H. 1998. A revision of Sabella, Bispira and Stylomma (Polychaeta: Sabellidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London, 123: 385-467, 31 figures. [details]

from synonym: Fauchald, K. 1977. The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA) Science Series 28:1-188, available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1767). Systema naturae sive regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae. 12th ed. v. 1 (pt 2): 533-1327, available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83650#5 [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Hartman, Olga 1959. Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation, 23: 628pp. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: McIntosh, W.C. 1922. A monograph of the British marine annelids. Polychaeta: Hermellidae to Sabellidae. London, Ray Society Vol. 4(1) pp.1-250.  [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Augener, H. 1934. Polychaeten aus den Zoologischen Museen von Leiden und Amsterdam. IV Schluss. Zoologische Mededeelingen s'Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie Leiden, 17: 67-160. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Fauvel, P. 1927. Polychètes sédentaires. Addenda aux errantes, Arachiannélides, Myzostomaires. Faune de France Volume 16. 1-494. Paul Lechevalier. Paris., available online at http://www.faunedefrance.org/bibliotheque/docs/P.FAUVEL(FdeFr16)Polychetes-sendentaires.pdf [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Viviani, Domenico. 1805. Phosphorencia maris, quatordecim lucescentiam animalicolorum novis speciebus illustrata avec 5 planches. Genoa. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Heppell, David 1963. Serpula Linnaeus, 1758 (Annelida, Polychaeta). Proposed designation of a type-species under the plenary powers and relevant proposals. Z.N.(S.) 1606. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 20(6): 443-446., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12221788
page(s): 443 [details] [view taxon]


from synonym: Ellis, J., 1755. An essay towards a natural history of the corallines, and other marine productions of the like kind, commonly found on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland.
page(s): 92 [details] [view taxon]


from synonym: Quatrefages, Armand de. 1866. Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. Volume 1. 1-588. Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris. [some vol.2 species are also linked here but see also source 51472]., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=FV9IAAAAYAAJ [details] [view taxon]

ecology source: Read, Geoffrey B.; Inglis, Graeme; Stratford, Peter; Ahyong, Shane T. 2011. Arrival of the alien fanworm Sabella spallanzanii (Gmelin, 1791) (Polychaeta: Sabellidae) in two New Zealand harbours. Aquatic Invasions 6(3):373-379), available online at http://www.aquaticinvasions.net/2011/AI_2011_6_3_Read_etal.pdf [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Catalan espirògraf  [details]
Catalan palmereta  [details]
English European fan worm  [details]
English feather duster worm  [details]
French spirographe  [details]
German Schrauben Sabelle  [details]
Italian ombrella di mare  [details]
Italian spirografo  [details]
Spanish plumero de mar  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Azores [details]
Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Baie de la Seine [details]
Channel Islands [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Golfe Normanno-Breton [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North West Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Roscoff [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Feedingtype  suspension feeder [details]
Links Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (17 nucleotides; 8 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Authority: (Viviani, 1805) in ITIS-database. This is incorrect. [details]

Basionym: The basionym of Sabella spallanzanii is Tubularia spallanzanii Gmelin, 1791 (i.e., the species was named in the 13th ed of Linnaeus Systema Naturaae). Tubularia Linnaeus, 1758, is a genus of hydrozoan (Cnidaria), thus S. spallanzanii was originally placed in another phylum. There is no WoRMS entry for Tubularia spallanzanii. [details]

Synonymy: Synonymies of "spallanzanii" usages are very complex and resolving them in WoRMS is not yet complete. Please see Knight-Jones and Perkins (1998) for full background. Those authors designated a single neotype for the four names Tubularia spallanzanii Gmelin, Serpula penicillus Linnaeus, Teredo melitensis Bergius, and Amphitrite ventilabrum Gmelin, which they placed junior to Sabella spallanzanii to stabilise the well-known name. An application to ICZN to confirm this was proposed, but did not occur. [details]

Type designation: Neotype, designated Knight-Jones & Perkins (1998), Natural History Museum London, NHM 1929.12.23.1, collected Malta, exact location unknown, by B. Grey [details]
Images 
Spirographis spallanzanii
[image from synonym]
Spirographis spallanzanii
added on 2008-12-16 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
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Corallina Tubularia Melitensis Ellis, 1755
[image from synonym]
Corallina Tubularia Melitensis Ellis, 1755
added on 2010-03-26
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Sabella spallanzanii
Sabella spallanzanii
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Sabella spallanzanii
Sabella spallanzanii
added on 2012-02-21 - author: Pillon, Roberto ()
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Sabella spallanzanii
Sabella spallanzanii
added on 2012-02-21 - author: Pillon, Roberto ()
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Sabella spallanzanii
Sabella spallanzanii
added on 2012-02-21 - author: Pillon, Roberto ()
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130969
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Bellan, Gérard
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
  
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  Citation: Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Sabella spallanzanii (Gmelin, 1791). In: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2013) World Polychaeta database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=130969 on 2013-05-20
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