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

Parasabella Bush, 1905

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Demonax*	Kinberg, 1867	junior homonym

Children

Parasabella cambrensis (Knight-Jones & Walker, 1985)
Parasabella langerhansi (Knight-Jones, 1983)
Parasabella saxicola (Grube, 1861)
Parasabella tenuicollaris (Grube, 1861)
Parasabella tommasi (Giangrande, 1994)
Parasabella torulis (Knight-Jones & Walker, 1985)

Literature

original description	Bush, K.J. (1904 (1905)). Tubicolous annelids of the tribes Sabellides and Serpulides from the Pacific Ocean. Harriman Alaska Expedition. 12: 169-346, plates XXI-XLIV.
source of synonymy	Perkins, Thomas H. (1984). Revision of Demonax Kinberg, Hypsicomus Grube, and Notaulax Tauber, with a review of Megalomma Johansson from Florida (Polychaeta: Sabellidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 97(2): 285-368.
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.
taxonomy source	Capa, María; Murray, Anna. (2015). Integrative taxonomy of Parasabella and Sabellomma (Sabellidae: Annelida) from Australia: description of new species, indication of cryptic diversity, and translocation of some species out of their natural distribution range. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 175(4): 764-811.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Parasabella Bush, 1905. 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:325958