Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Phyllodocida > Suborder Phyllodocida incertae sedis > Family Typhloscolecidae > Genus Sagitella

Sagitella kowalewskii Wagner, 1872

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Sagitella*	Wagner, 1872	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Sagitella kowalevskii*	Wagner, 1872	orthographic variant
*Sagitella kowalevskyi*	Wagner, 1872	orthographic variant

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ヤムシゴカイ

Literature

original description	Wagner, Nicholas. (1872). [New group of annelids]. Trudy Imperatorskago Sankt-Peterburgskago Obshchestva. 3: 344-347, Plate 33, fig.8-11 (all in Russian, no English/French/German summary).
basis of record	Dauvin, J.-C.; Dewarumez, J.-M.; Gentil, F. (2003). Liste actualisée des espèces d'Annélides Polychètes présentes en Manche [An up to date list of polychaetous annelids from the English Channel]. Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 44(1): 67-95.
additional source	Day, J. H. (1967). [Errantia] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. vi, 1–458, xxix.
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Sicinski J. 2008. Admiralty Bay Benthos Diversity Data Base (ABBED). Polychaeta. (http://www.scarmarbin.be)
additional source	Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. [Book chapter]. Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
additional source	Uschakov, Pavel Vladimirovich. (1974). Fauna of the USSR. Polychaetes. Volume I. Polychaetes of the suborder Phyllodocidiformia of the Polar Basin and the Northwestern part of the Pacific (families Phyllodocidae, Alciopidae, Tomopteridae, Typhloscolecidae and Lacydoniidae). Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Zoological Institute, New Series 102. Israel Program for Scientifc Translations, Jerusalem, 259 pp. [1974 English translation of the 1972 Russian original publication].
taxonomy source	Benham, William B. (1929). The pelagic Polychaeta. British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition, 1910 Natural History Report. Zoology. 7(3): 183-201, 2 plates.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Sagitella kowalewskii Wagner, 1872. 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:155459