Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Canalipalpata > Order Sabellida > Family Sabellidae > Subfamily Sabellinae > Genus Sabella

Sabella discifera Grube, 1874

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Sabella*	Linnaeus, 1767	accepted genus name
*Spirographis*	Viviani, 1805	generic synonym

Species group names

*Branchiomma linaresi*	Rioja, 1917	subjective synonym
*Sabella variabilis*	Langerhans, 1884	subjective synonym
*Megalomma linaresi*	(Rioja, 1917)	synonym

Literature

original description	Grube, A. E. (1874). Uber seine im verflossenen August und September ausgeführte Reise nach der Küste von Dalmatien. Jahres-Bericht der Schlesiche Gesellshaft für vaterlandische kultur, Breslau. 52-56.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
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.
redescription	Knight-Jones, Phyllis; Perkins, Thomas H. (1998). A revision of Sabella, Bispira and Stylomma (Polychaeta: Sabellidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London. 123: 385-467.
redescription	Jirkov, I.A. (2001). [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] (In Russian) Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Yanus-K Press, Moscow, 632 pp.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Sabella discifera Grube, 1874. 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:130964