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

Sabella spallanzanii (Gmelin, 1791)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

SabellaLinnaeus, 1767accepted genus name
Spirographis Viviani, 1805 heterotypic synonym

Species group names

Sabella penicillus Linnaeus, 1767 heterotypic synonym
Spirographis spallanzanii (Viviani, 1805) synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Catalan: espirògraf; palmereta sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona
 English: European fan worm; feather duster worm; Mediterranean fanworm sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;Read, Geoffrey B.; Inglis, Graeme; Stratford, Peter; Ahyong, Shane T. 2011. Arrival of the alien fanworm Sabella spallanzanii (Gmelin, 1791) (Polychaeta: Sabellidae) in two New Zealand harbours. Aquatic Invasions 6(3):373-379)
 English-United States: Feather Duster Worm sources: Charles Hussey
 French: spirographe sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona
 German: Schrauben Sabelle sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona
 Italian: ombrella di mare; spirografo sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona
 Spanish, Castillian: plumero de mar

Literature

original description

Gmelin, J.F. (1791) Vermes. In Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Editio Decima Tertia, Aucta Reformata. Tome 1, Pars 6 (Vermes). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig], pp. 3021-3910.

basis of record

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: pp. 214-231

additional source

Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta

additional source

Fattorini, Daniele and Regoli, Francesco 2006. Arsenic speciation in tissues of the Mediterranean Polychaete Sabella spallanzanii. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 23(8):1881-1887

additional source

Biosis; Index To Organism Names

additional source

Wilson, R.S.; Hutchings, P.A. and Glasby, C.J. (eds) 2003. List of Polychaete species introduced to Australia. Polychaetes: An Interactive Identification Guide. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne

redescription

Knight-Jones, Phyllis and Perkins, Thomas H. 1998. A revision of Sabella, Bispira and Stylomma (Polychaeta: Sabellidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London, 123: 385-467, 31 figures.

ecology source

Read, Geoffrey B.; Inglis, Graeme; Stratford, Peter; Ahyong, Shane T. 2011. Arrival of the alien fanworm Sabella spallanzanii (Gmelin, 1791) (Polychaeta: Sabellidae) in two New Zealand harbours. Aquatic Invasions 6(3):373-379)

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Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
GenBank (17 nucleotides; 8 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

WoRMS (2014). Sabella spallanzanii. In: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2014) World Polychaeta database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130969

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2008-03-26 by Kristian Fauchald

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