Deep-Sea taxon details
Parasabella Bush, 1905
325958 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:325958)
accepted
Genus
Demonax Kinberg, 1867 · unaccepted (junior homonym, replaced by next...)
junior homonym, replaced by next synonym
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Bush, K.J. (1904 (1905)). Tubicolous annelids of the tribes Sabellides and Serpulides from the Pacific Ocean. <em>Harriman Alaska Expedition.</em> 12: 169-346, plates XXI-XLIV., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22063650
page(s): 199 [details]
page(s): 199 [details]
Note Tovar-Hernández & Harris (2010) state that...
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Type species Tovar-Hernández & Harris (2010) state that Demonax krusensterni, type of Demonax, becomes type species of a revalidated Parasabella (when that genus name replaces its senior synonym Demonax because Demonax is unavailable due to junior homonymy). However, this is incorrect. The respective type species do not change. It would be destabilizing to taxonomy if they did, and fundamentally contrary to how the scope of name usages must always relate to their type species, ultimately represented by the holotype of that species. Later Capa & Murray (2015) correctly continue Bush's Parasabella type species of Parasabella media Bush. [details]
Etymology Not stated but clearly named because Bush considered Parasabella species resembled typical Sabella in form. Her diagnosis...
Etymology Not stated but clearly named because Bush considered Parasabella species resembled typical Sabella in form. Her diagnosis (qv) does not however contrast Parasabella character states with those of Sabella which probably had a looser definition then in 1905 than it does now. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Parasabella Bush, 1905. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=325958 on 2025-07-10
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Parasabella Bush, 1905. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=325958 on 2025-07-10
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Bush, K.J. (1904 (1905)). Tubicolous annelids of the tribes Sabellides and Serpulides from the Pacific Ocean. <em>Harriman Alaska Expedition.</em> 12: 169-346, plates XXI-XLIV., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22063650
page(s): 199 [details]
original description (of Demonax Kinberg, 1867) Kinberg, J.G.H. (1866 [or 1867]). Annulata nova. [Continuatio.]. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 23(9): 337-357., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32287795
page(s): 354 [details]
taxonomy source Capa, María; Murray, Anna. (2015). Integrative taxonomy of Parasabella and Sabellomma (Sabellidae: Annelida) from Australia: description of new species, indication of cryptic diversity, and translocation of some species out of their natural distribution range. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 175(4): 764-811., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zoj.12308/abstract
note: australian Parasabella reviewed [details] Available for editors
source of synonymy Perkins, Thomas H. (1984). Revision of <i>Demonax</i> Kinberg, <i>Hypsicomus</i> Grube, and <i>Notaulax</i> Tauber, with a review of <i>Megalomma</i> Johansson from Florida (Polychaeta: Sabellidae). <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 97(2): 285-368., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34553607
page(s): 292 [details]
status source Tovar-Hernández, María Ana ; Harris, Leslie, H. 2010: Parasabella Bush, 1905, replacement name for the polychaete genus Demonax Kinberg, 1867 (Annelida, Polychaeta, Sabellidae). ZooKeys 60: 13–19. , available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.60.547
page(s): 14 [details]
page(s): 199 [details]
original description (of Demonax Kinberg, 1867) Kinberg, J.G.H. (1866 [or 1867]). Annulata nova. [Continuatio.]. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 23(9): 337-357., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32287795
page(s): 354 [details]
taxonomy source Capa, María; Murray, Anna. (2015). Integrative taxonomy of Parasabella and Sabellomma (Sabellidae: Annelida) from Australia: description of new species, indication of cryptic diversity, and translocation of some species out of their natural distribution range. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 175(4): 764-811., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zoj.12308/abstract
note: australian Parasabella reviewed [details] Available for editors
source of synonymy Perkins, Thomas H. (1984). Revision of <i>Demonax</i> Kinberg, <i>Hypsicomus</i> Grube, and <i>Notaulax</i> Tauber, with a review of <i>Megalomma</i> Johansson from Florida (Polychaeta: Sabellidae). <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 97(2): 285-368., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34553607
page(s): 292 [details]
status source Tovar-Hernández, María Ana ; Harris, Leslie, H. 2010: Parasabella Bush, 1905, replacement name for the polychaete genus Demonax Kinberg, 1867 (Annelida, Polychaeta, Sabellidae). ZooKeys 60: 13–19. , available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.60.547
page(s): 14 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis The original diagnosis by Bush (1905:199) is as follows: Parasabella "is proposed for species which, though resembling typical Sabellas in form, have the branchial lobes small, but slightly prolonged ventrally, with the branchiae not so distinctly four-sided, and connected by a very slightly developed, posterior, interbranchial, membranous web. The collar bilobed, without lateral incisions, widely separated on the back, ending in more or less angular ventral ends. All the fascicles of chaetae laterally elongated. Chaetae on the thorax of two forms ; superior ones long, regularly tapered ; inferior ones shorter, broader, and oblanceolate. Tori with avicular uncini and pennoned chaetae."The diagnosis of Cap & Murray (2015) is restricted to companion chaetae morphology as follows: "Thoracic neuropodial companion chaetae with subdistal end enlarged, conspicuous microtubercles forming hood, resulting in dentate appearance at base of hood, and with thin distal mucro compressed laterally"
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Etymology Not stated but clearly named because Bush considered Parasabella species resembled typical Sabella in form. Her diagnosis (qv) does not however contrast Parasabella character states with those of Sabella which probably had a looser definition then in 1905 than it does now. [details]
Type species Tovar-Hernández & Harris (2010) state that Demonax krusensterni, type of Demonax, becomes type species of a revalidated Parasabella (when that genus name replaces its senior synonym Demonax because Demonax is unavailable due to junior homonymy). However, this is incorrect. The respective type species do not change. It would be destabilizing to taxonomy if they did, and fundamentally contrary to how the scope of name usages must always relate to their type species, ultimately represented by the holotype of that species. Later Capa & Murray (2015) correctly continue Bush's Parasabella type species of Parasabella media Bush. [details]
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Demonax) (from synonym Demonax Kinberg, 1867)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Parasabella)
To Genbank
To Genbank (from synonym Demonax Kinberg, 1867)
To Genbank (from synonym Demonax Kinberg, 1867)
To Genbank (from synonym Demonax Kinberg, 1867)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Parasabella)
To Genbank
To Genbank (from synonym Demonax Kinberg, 1867)
To Genbank (from synonym Demonax Kinberg, 1867)
To Genbank (from synonym Demonax Kinberg, 1867)
