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

*Sabella*	Linnaeus, 1767	accepted 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)

Genbank

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