WoRMS name details
Corallina [sensu Ellis, 1755]
325747 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:325747)
uncertain > nomen dubium
Genus
Species Corallina Tubularia-Melitensis Ellis, 1755 accepted as Sabella spallanzanii (Gmelin, 1791) (subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Not documented
Nomenclature Genus "Corallina" is not an accepted name in Phylum Annelida. However, Ellis (1755) included a variety of apparently...
Nomenclature Genus "Corallina" is not an accepted name in Phylum Annelida. However, Ellis (1755) included a variety of apparently plant-like animal Phyla under his "Corallina". His grouping related to the structures created, and he was aware they were created by organisms other than 'polypes' (Cnidarian corals). Within Annelida Ellis's use of 'Corallina' related to one instance in sabellid tube worms. He had described a sabellid worm from Malta as Corallina Tubularia Melitensis. This name was placed as a subjective synonym of Sabella spallanzanii by Knight-Jones & Perkins (1998). Corallina Linnaeus, 1758, which may have had a similar confused origin, is a valid genus of Algae in the Plant Kingdom, [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2023). World Polychaeta Database. Corallina [sensu Ellis, 1755]. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=325747 on 2023-04-01
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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., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10676206
page(s): 92 [details]
page(s): 92 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Nomenclature Genus "Corallina" is not an accepted name in Phylum Annelida. However, Ellis (1755) included a variety of apparently plant-like animal Phyla under his "Corallina". His grouping related to the structures created, and he was aware they were created by organisms other than 'polypes' (Cnidarian corals). Within Annelida Ellis's use of 'Corallina' related to one instance in sabellid tube worms. He had described a sabellid worm from Malta as Corallina Tubularia Melitensis. This name was placed as a subjective synonym of Sabella spallanzanii by Knight-Jones & Perkins (1998). Corallina Linnaeus, 1758, which may have had a similar confused origin, is a valid genus of Algae in the Plant Kingdom, [details]
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| Japanese | サンゴモ | [details] |
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| Spirographis spalla... [image from typetaxon] | |
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| Corallina Tubularia... [image from typetaxon] | |
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| Sabella spallanzanii [image from typetaxon] | |
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| Antedon mediterranea [image from typetaxon] | |
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| Sabella spallanzanii [image from typetaxon] | |
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| Sabella spallanzanii [image from typetaxon] | |
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| Sabella spallanzanii [image from typetaxon] | |
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| Sabella spallanzani... [image from typetaxon] | |
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| Sabella spallanzanii [image from typetaxon] | |
