WoRMS name details
Sabella argus
1371170 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1371170)
unaccepted (mistake by Johansson (1926), as no such combination existed)
Species
marine
recent only
(of Dasychone argus Sars, 1862) Sars, M. (1862). Foredrag om de ved Norges Kyster forekommende Arter af den Linnéiske Annelideslægt Sabella. <em>Forhandliger I Videnskabs Selskabet i Christiania.</em> 1861: 116-133. [details] 
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Sabella argus. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1371170 on 2024-11-21
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original description
(of Dasychone argus Sars, 1862) Sars, M. (1862). Foredrag om de ved Norges Kyster forekommende Arter af den Linnéiske Annelideslægt Sabella. <em>Forhandliger I Videnskabs Selskabet i Christiania.</em> 1861: 116-133. [details]
basis of record Johansson, Karl Erik 1926. Bemerkungen über die Kinberg'schen Arten der Familien Hermellidae und Sabellidae. Arkiv för Zoologi, 18A(7): 1-28.
page(s): 9; note: mention in text flow, in translation as "Dasychone argus, already described by Dalyell as Sabella argus in the year 1853" [details]
additional source Licciano, M.; Giangrande, A. 2008. The genus Branchiomma (Polychaeta : Sabellidae) in the Mediterranean Sea, with the description of B. maerli n. sp. Scientia Marina 72(2): 383-391
page(s): 385; note: "Sabella argus Sars" is listed in the synonymy of Branchiomma bombyx Dalyell, 1853 [details]
additional source Benham, William B. (1927). Polychaeta [Terra Nova]. <em>British Antarctic 'Terra Nova' Expedition Natural History Reports, Zoology.</em> 7(2): 47-182, plates 1-6., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49465872
page(s): 137; note: In a footnote Benham repeats the wrong information of Johansson (1926) [details]
basis of record Johansson, Karl Erik 1926. Bemerkungen über die Kinberg'schen Arten der Familien Hermellidae und Sabellidae. Arkiv för Zoologi, 18A(7): 1-28.
page(s): 9; note: mention in text flow, in translation as "Dasychone argus, already described by Dalyell as Sabella argus in the year 1853" [details]
additional source Licciano, M.; Giangrande, A. 2008. The genus Branchiomma (Polychaeta : Sabellidae) in the Mediterranean Sea, with the description of B. maerli n. sp. Scientia Marina 72(2): 383-391
page(s): 385; note: "Sabella argus Sars" is listed in the synonymy of Branchiomma bombyx Dalyell, 1853 [details]
additional source Benham, William B. (1927). Polychaeta [Terra Nova]. <em>British Antarctic 'Terra Nova' Expedition Natural History Reports, Zoology.</em> 7(2): 47-182, plates 1-6., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49465872
page(s): 137; note: In a footnote Benham repeats the wrong information of Johansson (1926) [details]
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment There is no such name as "Sabella argus", and the few usages of it are mistakes by authors. It originated in a usage in a sentence by Johansson (1926) of an undocumented name, "Sabella argus". This usage was detected and further researched by editor Harry ten Hove. Johansson writes: "Dasychone argus, von Dalyell schon im Jahre 1853 als Sabella argus beschrieben. Als Kölliker sie aufs neue 1858 erwähnte, benannte er sie Branchiomma dalyelli. [Dasychone argus, already described by Dalyell as Sabella argus in the year 1853. When Kölliker mentioned the species again in 1858, he named it Branchiomma dalyelli]. However, the name is not in Dalyell and not in Kölliker. The next year after Johansson's usage appeared this non-existent "Sabella argus" combination was re-used by Benham (Terra Nova, 1927 p. 137, footnote), where he repeats Johansson's wrong information, and it was included as a past combination by Licciano & Giangrande (2008:385) where "Sabella argus Sars" is in the synonymy of Branchiomma bombyx. However, Sars (1862) never uses "Sabella argus". The only connection with genus Sabella is that his new species, Dasychone argus, has Sars' (misidentifications) of Sabella ventilabrum and Sabella lucullana in its synonymy. Sars is just referring his earlier usages to his new species in Dasychone. [details]
