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

Bispira melanostigma (Schmarda, 1861)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Bispira*	Krøyer, 1856	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Sabella bipunctata*	Baird, 1865	subjective synonym
*Sabella melanostigma*	Schmarda, 1861	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: variegated fanworm; variegated feather duster; variegated feather duster worm sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Vielfarbiger Fächerröhrenwurm

Literature

additional source	Fauchald, K.; Granados-Barba, A.; Solís-Weiss, V. (2009). Polychaeta (Annelida) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 751–788 in D.L. Felder and D.K. Camp (eds.). Gulf of Mexico. Origin, Waters, and Biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas.
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.
status source	Tovar-Hernández, María Ana; Salazar-Silva, P. 2008. Catalogue of Sabellidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from the Grand Caribbean Region. Zootaxa 1894: 1–22
status source	Tovar-Hernández, M.A.; Salazar-Vallejo, S.I. (2006). Sabellids (Polychaeta: Sabellidae) from the Grand Caribbean. Zoological Studies. 45(1), 24-66.
biology source	Hornfeck, Caroline J.; Faurie, Taber C.; Hodges, Logan L.; Janosik, Alexis M.; Bogantes, Viktoria E. (2021). The complete mitochondrial genome of the marine feather duster, Bispira melanostigma (Annelida: Sabellidae). Mitochondrial DNA Part B. 7(1): 51-53.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Bispira melanostigma (Schmarda, 1861). 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:333110