Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Canalipalpata > Family Sabellariidae

Sabellaria Lamarck, 1818

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hermella*	Savigny, 1822	generic synonym
*Alveolaria*	Johnston, 1865	junior homonym

Children

Sabellaria alcocki Gravier, 1906
Sabellaria alveolata (Linnaeus, 1767)
Sabellaria spinulosa (Leuckart, 1849)
Sabellaria taurica (Rathke, 1837)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: アリアケカンムリゴカイ属

Literature

original description	Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1818). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome cinquième, 612 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière.
additional source	Quatrefages, Armand de. (1848). Études sur les types inférieurs de l'embranchements des annelés. Mémoire sur la famille des Hermelliens (Hermellea Nob.). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris. Série 3. Zoologie. 10: 5-58, plate 2.
additional source	Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series. 28:1-188.
additional source	Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 214-231.
additional source	Day, J. H. (1967). [Sedentaria] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. 459–842.
additional source	Lamarck, J. B. de. (1812). Extrait du cours de zoologie du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, sur les animaux sans vertèbres; présentant la distribution et la classification de ces animaux, les caractères des principales divisions, et une simple liste des genres; a l'usage de ceux qui suivent ce cours. [Extract from the zoology course of the Natural History Museum, on animals without vertebrae; presenting the distribution and classification of these animals, the characteristics of the principal divisions, and a simple list of the genera; for the use of those following this course]. Paris, D'Hautel. 1-127.
identification resource	Chávez-López, Yessica. (2021). Sabellariids (Annelida: Sedentaria: Sabellariidae) from shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, including three new species. Zootaxa. 5048(2): 191-214.
biology source	Killeen, Ian J.; Light, Janice M. (2000). Sabellaria, a polychaete host for the gastropods Noemiamea dolioliformis and Graphis albida. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 80(3) : 571-573.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Sabellaria Lamarck, 1818. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129520