WoRMS taxon details
Parasabella pallida Moore, 1923
337882 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:337882)
accepted
Species
Demonax pallidus (Moore, 1923) · unaccepted (superseded recombination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Moore, J. Percy. (1923). The polychaetous annelids dredged by the U.S.S. ''Albatross'' off the coast of southern California in 1904. IV. Spionidae to Sabellariidae. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 75: 179-259, plates XVII-XVIII., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.12425
page(s): 241-242; note: no figures [details]
page(s): 241-242; note: no figures [details]
Note Pacific Ocean, Monterey Bay, California
Unreviewed
Type locality Pacific Ocean, Monterey Bay, California [details]
Nomenclature Tovar-Hernández & Harris (2010) incorrectly state Parasabella pallida is a comb. nov.
Nomenclature Tovar-Hernández & Harris (2010) incorrectly state Parasabella pallida is a comb. nov. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Parasabella pallida Moore, 1923. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=337882 on 2026-07-08
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Nomenclature
original description
Moore, J. Percy. (1923). The polychaetous annelids dredged by the U.S.S. ''Albatross'' off the coast of southern California in 1904. IV. Spionidae to Sabellariidae. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 75: 179-259, plates XVII-XVIII., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.12425
page(s): 241-242; note: no figures [details]
page(s): 241-242; note: no figures [details]
Taxonomy
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 [details]
source of synonymy Hartman, O. (1969). Atlas of the sedentariate polychaetous annelids from California. 1-812. Allan Hancock Foundation, University of Southern California. Los Angeles. [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): 15 [details]
source of synonymy Hartman, O. (1969). Atlas of the sedentariate polychaetous annelids from California. 1-812. Allan Hancock Foundation, University of Southern California. Los Angeles. [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): 15 [details]
Other
additional source
Yáñez-Rivera, Beatriz; Tovar-Hernández, María Ana; Galván-Villa, Cristian Moisés; Ríos-Jara, Eduardo. (2020). Tubicolous polychaete worms (Annelida) from Bahía de Chamela Islands Sanctuary, Mexico, with the description of a new bamboo worm. <em>Biodiversity Data Journal.</em> 8: e57572: 1-43., available online at https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/57572/list/9/
page(s): 26 of 43; note: record and brief description for Mexican Pacific [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 26 of 43; note: record and brief description for Mexican Pacific [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Holotype Fide Perkins (1984) holotype is a subadult. [details]Nomenclature Tovar-Hernández & Harris (2010) incorrectly state Parasabella pallida is a comb. nov. [details]
Unreviewed
Specimen Smithsonian Institution, Washington (USNM) [details]Type locality Pacific Ocean, Monterey Bay, California [details]
