WoRMS name details
Tubularia penicillus [sensu] Müller, 1776
1579262 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1579262)
unaccepted (not junior to S. pavonina, but Knight-Jones & Perkins (1998, q.v.) invalidate all sabellid 'penicillus' names)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae Indigenarum characters, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. [Prodromus of Danish Zoology, or the characters, names, and synonyms of the indigenous animals of Denmark and Norway, especially of the popular ones.]. <em>Typis Hallageriis, Havniae.</em> 32: 1-282., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47550
page(s): 254; note: brief Latin diagnosis. Item 3063, introducing other Tubularia species. [details]
page(s): 254; note: brief Latin diagnosis. Item 3063, introducing other Tubularia species. [details]
Description There is a brief Latin diagnosis: Tubularia "Penicillus cristata , cirris pectinatis pavoniis , tubulo curvato , laevi"...
Description There is a brief Latin diagnosis: Tubularia "Penicillus cristata , cirris pectinatis pavoniis , tubulo curvato , laevi" [Crested pencil, combed peacock's curls, with a curved tube, and a smooth surface.] [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Tubularia penicillus [sensu] Müller, 1776. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1579262 on 2025-12-22
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Nomenclature
original description
Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae Indigenarum characters, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. [Prodromus of Danish Zoology, or the characters, names, and synonyms of the indigenous animals of Denmark and Norway, especially of the popular ones.]. <em>Typis Hallageriis, Havniae.</em> 32: 1-282., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47550
page(s): 254; note: brief Latin diagnosis. Item 3063, introducing other Tubularia species. [details]
page(s): 254; note: brief Latin diagnosis. Item 3063, introducing other Tubularia species. [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Knight-Jones, Phyllis; Perkins, Thomas H. (1998). A revision of Sabella, Bispira and Stylomma (Polychaeta: Sabellidae). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London.</em> 123: 385-467., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1998.tb01370.x
page(s): 397; note: to Sabella pavonina. Regarded as not an original name by Knight-Jones & Perkins [details] Available for editors
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redescription Müller, O. F. (1779). <em>Zoologia Danica sev animalivm Daniae et Norvegiae rariorvm ac minvs notorvm descriptiones et historia. Volvmen Primvm.</em> Havniae et Lipsiae: Svmtibvs Weygandinis, pp. 104., available online at https://ia803203.us.archive.org/3/items/zoologiadanicase01mlle/zoologiadanicase01mlle.pdf
page(s): 13, figures 1-2, see: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33601613; note: description with two figures [details]
page(s): 397; note: to Sabella pavonina. Regarded as not an original name by Knight-Jones & Perkins [details] Available for editors
[request]redescription Müller, O. F. (1779). <em>Zoologia Danica sev animalivm Daniae et Norvegiae rariorvm ac minvs notorvm descriptiones et historia. Volvmen Primvm.</em> Havniae et Lipsiae: Svmtibvs Weygandinis, pp. 104., available online at https://ia803203.us.archive.org/3/items/zoologiadanicase01mlle/zoologiadanicase01mlle.pdf
page(s): 13, figures 1-2, see: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33601613; note: description with two figures [details]
From editor or global species database
Description There is a brief Latin diagnosis: Tubularia "Penicillus cristata , cirris pectinatis pavoniis , tubulo curvato , laevi" [Crested pencil, combed peacock's curls, with a curved tube, and a smooth surface.] [details]Editor's comment Knight-Jones & Perkins (1988) assign the Tubularia penicillus sensu Müller, 1776 to Sabella pavonina, and they assign Serpula penicillus (later Sabella penicillus) of Linnaeus, 1758 to Sabella spallanzanii (Gmelin, 1791), which was originally Tubularia spallanzanii, which is named in a later edition of the same work, "Systema naturae". Readers will have to study their article to see how this is possible. Müller's 1776 brief diagnosis of Tubularia penicillus is closely similar to the later diagnosis for Serpula penicillus in Gmelin. [details]
