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Sabella elegans Bush, 1905 
AphiaID: 339962

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Sabellida (Order) > Sabellidae (Family) > Sabellinae (Subfamily) > Sabella (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (objective synonym)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Bispira elegans (Bush, 1905)
Rank Species
Parent Sabella Linnaeus, 1767
Sources  original description: Bush, Katharine J. 1905. Tubicolous annelids of the tribes Sabellides and Serpulides from the Pacific Ocean. Harriman Alaska Expedition, 12: 169-346. [details]

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

source of synonymy: Hartman, O. 1942. A review of the types of polychaetous annelids at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University. Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection, Yale University, 8(1): 1-98. [details]

source of synonymy: 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]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
Notes  Specimen: Peabody Museum, Yale University [details]

Synonymy: Three other Bush Sabella are synonyms of this. Hartman wrongly synonymised elegans with crassicornis, fide Knight-Jones & Perkins 1998:433 [details]

Type locality: Pacific Ocean, Kodiak, Alaska [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:339962
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-03-18 12:55:09Z  created  Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
2010-10-06 19:55:23Z  changed  Read, Geoffrey
  
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  Citation: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Sabella elegans Bush, 1905. 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=339962 on 2013-05-18
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