WoRMS name details
Bispira melania (Schmarda, 1861) sensu Mullin, 1923
337835 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:337835)
unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Sabella melania Schmarda, 1861) Schmarda, L. K. (1861). Neue Wirbellose Thiere: Beobachted und Gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erdr 1853 bis 1857. <em>In Turbellarien, Rotatorien und Anneliden. Leipzig, Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann.</em> Erster Band, Zweite Hälfte., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/neuewirbelloseth21861schm
page(s): 35, 3 text-figs. [top of page], plate XXIII fig. 192 [details]
page(s): 35, 3 text-figs. [top of page], plate XXIII fig. 192 [details]
Note Caribbean Sea
Unreviewed
Type locality Caribbean Sea [details]
Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed
Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Bispira melania (Schmarda, 1861) sensu Mullin, 1923. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=337835 on 2026-05-19
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Sabella melania Schmarda, 1861) Schmarda, L. K. (1861). Neue Wirbellose Thiere: Beobachted und Gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erdr 1853 bis 1857. <em>In Turbellarien, Rotatorien und Anneliden. Leipzig, Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann.</em> Erster Band, Zweite Hälfte., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/neuewirbelloseth21861schm
page(s): 35, 3 text-figs. [top of page], plate XXIII fig. 192 [details]
basis of record Fauchald, K. (2007). World Register of Polychaeta. , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details]
page(s): 35, 3 text-figs. [top of page], plate XXIII fig. 192 [details]
basis of record Fauchald, K. (2007). World Register of Polychaeta. , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Hartman, O. (1951). The littoral marine annelids of the Gulf of Mexico. <em>Publications of the Institute of Marine Science, Port Aransas, Texas.</em> 2(1): 7-124., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22162 [details] Available for editors 
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redescription Mullin, Catherine Agnes 1923. Report on some polychaetous annelids collected by the Barbados-Antigua Expedition from the University of Iowa in 1918. University of Iowa Studies. Studies in Natural History, 10(3): 39-60., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/52556
page(s): 52 [details]
[request]redescription Mullin, Catherine Agnes 1923. Report on some polychaetous annelids collected by the Barbados-Antigua Expedition from the University of Iowa in 1918. University of Iowa Studies. Studies in Natural History, 10(3): 39-60., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/52556
page(s): 52 [details]
Other
additional source
Treadwell, Aaron L. (1924). Polychaetous annelids collected by the Barbados-Antigua Expedition from the University of Iowa in 1918. <em>University of Iowa Studies in Natural History.</em> 10(4): 3-23, plates I-II., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15291771
page(s): 18-19 [details]
page(s): 18-19 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment Contrary to Hartman's catalogue p.536, it is clear from Mullin's text that she was redescribing Schmarda's species as a new combination and was not initiating a new taxon [details]Unreviewed
Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed [details]Type locality Caribbean Sea [details]
