WoRMS taxon details
Sagitella kowalewskii Wagner, 1872
155459 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:155459)
accepted
Species
Acicularia virchowii Langerhans, 1877 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Plotobia paucichaeta Treadwell, 1943 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Sagitella kowalevskii Wagner, 1872 · unaccepted (minor spelling variant)
Sagitella kowalevskyi Wagner, 1872 · unaccepted (unjustified emendation (spelling...)
unjustified emendation (spelling variant)
Sagitella kowalewski Wagner, 1872 · unaccepted (minor spelling variant)
Typhloscolex paucichaeta (Treadwell, 1943) · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
marine
Note Gulf of Naples and the Gulf of Vieccitaro (as...
From editor or global species database
Type locality Gulf of Naples and the Gulf of Vieccitaro (as transliterated, true spelling unknown), Italian seas, Mediterranean Sea [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Sagitella kowalewskii Wagner, 1872. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=155459 on 2026-10-01
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Nomenclature
original description
Wagner, Nicholas. (1872). [New group of annelids]. <em>Trudy Imperatorskago Sankt-Peterburgskago Obshchestva.</em> 3: 344-347, Plate 33, fig.8-11 (all in Russian, no English/French/German summary). (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 344 [details]
original description (of Acicularia virchowii Langerhans, 1877) Langerhans, P. (1878). Über <i>Acicularia Virchowii</i>, eine neue Annelidenform. <i>Monatsberichte der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin</i>. 1877: 727-728., available online at http://bibliothek.bbaw.de/bibliothek-digital/digitalequellen/schriften/anzeige/index_html?band=09-mon/1877&seite:int=754 [details]
original description (of Plotobia paucichaeta Treadwell, 1943) Treadwell, A.L. (1943). Scientific Results of Cruise VII of the Carnegie during 1928-1929 under Command of Captain J.P. Ault. Biology - IV. Biological results of the last cruise of the Carnegie. III. Polychaetous annelids. <em>Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication.</em> 555: 29-59, 1 plate, 4 maps., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10789918 [details]
page(s): 344 [details]
original description (of Acicularia virchowii Langerhans, 1877) Langerhans, P. (1878). Über <i>Acicularia Virchowii</i>, eine neue Annelidenform. <i>Monatsberichte der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin</i>. 1877: 727-728., available online at http://bibliothek.bbaw.de/bibliothek-digital/digitalequellen/schriften/anzeige/index_html?band=09-mon/1877&seite:int=754 [details]
original description (of Plotobia paucichaeta Treadwell, 1943) Treadwell, A.L. (1943). Scientific Results of Cruise VII of the Carnegie during 1928-1929 under Command of Captain J.P. Ault. Biology - IV. Biological results of the last cruise of the Carnegie. III. Polychaetous annelids. <em>Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication.</em> 555: 29-59, 1 plate, 4 maps., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10789918 [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Benham, William B. (1929). The pelagic Polychaeta. <em>British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition, 1910 Natural History Report. Zoology.</em> 7(3): 183-201, 2 plates., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49466036
page(s): 80, Plate 2, figures 33-34; note: Ross Sea, Station 275, plankton, depth 160 metres. [details]
taxonomy source Kolbasova, G.; Syomin, V.; Sempere-Valverde, J.; Teixeira, M. A.; Carvalho, S. (2025). Holopelagic Annelida from the Red Sea off the Central Saudi Arabian coast. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5632(1): 1-41., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5632.1.1
page(s): 21, figures 1, 11, 12A–B; note: Description and records from the central Red Sea [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 80, Plate 2, figures 33-34; note: Ross Sea, Station 275, plankton, depth 160 metres. [details]
taxonomy source Kolbasova, G.; Syomin, V.; Sempere-Valverde, J.; Teixeira, M. A.; Carvalho, S. (2025). Holopelagic Annelida from the Red Sea off the Central Saudi Arabian coast. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5632(1): 1-41., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5632.1.1
page(s): 21, figures 1, 11, 12A–B; note: Description and records from the central Red Sea [details] Available for editors
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context source (HKRMS)
Chan, L. C. (1995). The ecology of marine plankton in Tai Tam Bay, Hong Kong, with special reference to barnacle (Arthropoda: Cirripedia) larvae. <em>PhD thesis. The University of Hong Kong.</em> [details]
context source (Bermuda) Morris, B. F. (1975). The neuston of the Northwest Atlantic . Ph.D. thesis - Dalhousie University. [details]
context source (Deepsea) Natural History Museum, London (NHM): Collections Management Database System. [details]
additional source Benham, William B. (1927). Polychaeta [Terra Nova]. <em>British Antarctic 'Terra Nova' Expedition Natural History Reports, Zoology.</em> 7(2): 47-182, plates 1-6., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49465872
page(s): 80-81, plate II figs. 33-34 [details]
additional source Dauvin, J.-C.; Dewarumez, J.-M.; Gentil, F. (2003). Liste actualisée des espèces d'Annélides Polychètes présentes en Manche [An up to date list of polychaetous annelids from the English Channel]. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 44(1): 67-95., available online at http://www.sb-roscoff.fr/sites/www.sb-roscoff.fr/files/documents/station-biologique-roscoff-dauvinal2003-3835.pdf
note: checklist listing [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Day, J. H. (1967). [Errantia] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. vi, 1–458, xxix., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]
additional source Ehlers, Ernst. (1913). Die Polychaeten-Sammlungen der Deutschen Südpolar-Expedition 1901‒1903. <em>Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition 1901‒1903 im Auftrage des Reichsamtes des Innern.</em> 13(4): 397-598, plates XXVI-XLVI., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2139283
page(s): 526-527, plate XXXIX fig. 15 [details]
additional source Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
note: Checklist listing for Ross Sea based on Benham 1929 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Kolbasova, G. D.; Syomin, V. M.; Maslakova, S. A.; Mishin, A. V.; Molodtsova, T. N.; Neretin, N. Yu; Young, C. M.; Neretina, T. V. (2026). Revision of Typhloscolecidae (Annelida, Errantia) with the description of three new Typhloscolex species. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 323: 219-249., available online at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0044523126000823#sec9
page(s): 246 figures. 1-2, 19A, 20A–C; note: Descrliption and record from 9 specimens from South and tropical Atlantic, Red Sea [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Monro, Charles Carmichael Arthur. (1930). Polychaete worms. <em>Discovery Reports, Cambridge.</em> 2: 1-222., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15904801
page(s): 89-90 [details]
additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
additional source Sicinski J. 2008. Admiralty Bay Benthos Diversity Data Base (ABBED). Polychaeta. (http://www.scarmarbin.be) [details]
additional source Uschakov, Pavel Vladimirovich. (1974). Fauna of the USSR. Polychaetes. Volume I. Polychaetes of the suborder Phyllodocidiformia of the Polar Basin and the Northwestern part of the Pacific (families Phyllodocidae, Alciopidae, Tomopteridae, Typhloscolecidae and Lacydoniidae). <em>Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Zoological Institute, New Series 102.</em> Israel Program for Scientifc Translations, Jerusalem, 259 pp. [1974 English translation of the 1972 Russian original publication]., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.46314
page(s): 212 [details]
context source (Bermuda) Morris, B. F. (1975). The neuston of the Northwest Atlantic . Ph.D. thesis - Dalhousie University. [details]
context source (Deepsea) Natural History Museum, London (NHM): Collections Management Database System. [details]
additional source Benham, William B. (1927). Polychaeta [Terra Nova]. <em>British Antarctic 'Terra Nova' Expedition Natural History Reports, Zoology.</em> 7(2): 47-182, plates 1-6., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49465872
page(s): 80-81, plate II figs. 33-34 [details]
additional source Dauvin, J.-C.; Dewarumez, J.-M.; Gentil, F. (2003). Liste actualisée des espèces d'Annélides Polychètes présentes en Manche [An up to date list of polychaetous annelids from the English Channel]. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 44(1): 67-95., available online at http://www.sb-roscoff.fr/sites/www.sb-roscoff.fr/files/documents/station-biologique-roscoff-dauvinal2003-3835.pdf
note: checklist listing [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Day, J. H. (1967). [Errantia] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. vi, 1–458, xxix., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]
additional source Ehlers, Ernst. (1913). Die Polychaeten-Sammlungen der Deutschen Südpolar-Expedition 1901‒1903. <em>Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition 1901‒1903 im Auftrage des Reichsamtes des Innern.</em> 13(4): 397-598, plates XXVI-XLVI., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2139283
page(s): 526-527, plate XXXIX fig. 15 [details]
additional source Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
note: Checklist listing for Ross Sea based on Benham 1929 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Kolbasova, G. D.; Syomin, V. M.; Maslakova, S. A.; Mishin, A. V.; Molodtsova, T. N.; Neretin, N. Yu; Young, C. M.; Neretina, T. V. (2026). Revision of Typhloscolecidae (Annelida, Errantia) with the description of three new Typhloscolex species. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 323: 219-249., available online at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0044523126000823#sec9
page(s): 246 figures. 1-2, 19A, 20A–C; note: Descrliption and record from 9 specimens from South and tropical Atlantic, Red Sea [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Monro, Charles Carmichael Arthur. (1930). Polychaete worms. <em>Discovery Reports, Cambridge.</em> 2: 1-222., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15904801
page(s): 89-90 [details]
additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
additional source Sicinski J. 2008. Admiralty Bay Benthos Diversity Data Base (ABBED). Polychaeta. (http://www.scarmarbin.be) [details]
additional source Uschakov, Pavel Vladimirovich. (1974). Fauna of the USSR. Polychaetes. Volume I. Polychaetes of the suborder Phyllodocidiformia of the Polar Basin and the Northwestern part of the Pacific (families Phyllodocidae, Alciopidae, Tomopteridae, Typhloscolecidae and Lacydoniidae). <em>Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Zoological Institute, New Series 102.</em> Israel Program for Scientifc Translations, Jerusalem, 259 pp. [1974 English translation of the 1972 Russian original publication]., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.46314
page(s): 212 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Spelling There are 4 spelling variants of the (transliterated) epithet (-lewskii, -lewski, -levskii, -levskyi). WoRMS uses 'kowalewskii' as it is the spelling used in the figure caption. It is also the most widely cite. [note added by G. Read] [details]Type locality Gulf of Naples and the Gulf of Vieccitaro (as transliterated, true spelling unknown), Italian seas, Mediterranean Sea [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ヤムシゴカイ | [details] |
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Sagitella kowalevskii Wagner, 1872)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Sagitella kowalewskii)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Acicularia virchowii Langerhans, 1877)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Plotobia paucichaeta Treadwell, 1943)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Typhloscolex paucichaeta (Treadwell, 1943))
To PESI (from synonym Sagitella kowalevskyi Wagner, 1872)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Sagitella kowalevskii Wagner, 1872)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (31 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (54 records) (from synonym Plotobia paucichaeta Treadwell, 1943)
To ITIS
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Sagitella kowalevskii Wagner, 1872)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Sagitella kowalewskii)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Acicularia virchowii Langerhans, 1877)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Plotobia paucichaeta Treadwell, 1943)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Typhloscolex paucichaeta (Treadwell, 1943))
To PESI (from synonym Sagitella kowalevskyi Wagner, 1872)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Sagitella kowalevskii Wagner, 1872)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (31 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (54 records) (from synonym Plotobia paucichaeta Treadwell, 1943)
To ITIS
