Polychaeta name details
Sabella volutacornis (Montagu, 1804)
1475885 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1475885)
unaccepted (misidentification & superseded subsequent combination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Amphitrite volutacornis Montagu, 1804) Montagu, G. (1804). Description of several marine animals found on the south coast of Devonshire. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society, London.</em> 7: 61-85, pls. 6-7., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/756268
page(s): 80 [details]
page(s): 80 [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta database. Sabella volutacornis (Montagu, 1804). Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1475885 on 2025-04-02
original description
(of Amphitrite volutacornis Montagu, 1804) Montagu, G. (1804). Description of several marine animals found on the south coast of Devonshire. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society, London.</em> 7: 61-85, pls. 6-7., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/756268
page(s): 80 [details]
taxonomy source Johnston, G. (1865). A catalogue of the British non-parasitical worms in the collection of the British Museum. <em>[book].</em> 1-365. British Museum. London. [See also separate entry for Baird supplement]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12291
page(s): 262, no figures; note: description, specimen from Falmouth. Again the account by Rathke (1843) is not mentioned. [details]
additional source Johnston, George 1846. An index to the British Annelides [sic]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 1, 16 (supplement to vol 16): 433-462. Plate 2. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22069506
page(s): 449; note: checklist listing only. Johnston does not include the recombination to Sabella by Rathke, and may not have been aware of it. [details] Available for editors
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new combination reference Rathke, H. (1843). Beiträge zur Fauna Norwegens. [Contributions to the Fauna of Norway]. <em>Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum, Breslau & Bonn.</em> 20: 1-264., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11613
page(s): 223-225, plate 12, figures 1-4; note: new combination for Amphitrite volutacornis, although later taxonomists agree that Rathke's specimen was not that species. [details]
status source Augener, H. 1912. Beitrag zur Kenntnis verschiedener Anneliden un Bemerkungen über die nordischen Nephthys-Arten und deren epitoken Formen. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin 78A(10): 162-212, Pl. 5 & 6. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13317436
page(s): 188; note: Augener examined Rathke's Sabella volutacornis specimens [details]
page(s): 80 [details]
taxonomy source Johnston, G. (1865). A catalogue of the British non-parasitical worms in the collection of the British Museum. <em>[book].</em> 1-365. British Museum. London. [See also separate entry for Baird supplement]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12291
page(s): 262, no figures; note: description, specimen from Falmouth. Again the account by Rathke (1843) is not mentioned. [details]
additional source Johnston, George 1846. An index to the British Annelides [sic]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 1, 16 (supplement to vol 16): 433-462. Plate 2. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22069506
page(s): 449; note: checklist listing only. Johnston does not include the recombination to Sabella by Rathke, and may not have been aware of it. [details] Available for editors
[request]new combination reference Rathke, H. (1843). Beiträge zur Fauna Norwegens. [Contributions to the Fauna of Norway]. <em>Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum, Breslau & Bonn.</em> 20: 1-264., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11613
page(s): 223-225, plate 12, figures 1-4; note: new combination for Amphitrite volutacornis, although later taxonomists agree that Rathke's specimen was not that species. [details]
status source Augener, H. 1912. Beitrag zur Kenntnis verschiedener Anneliden un Bemerkungen über die nordischen Nephthys-Arten und deren epitoken Formen. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin 78A(10): 162-212, Pl. 5 & 6. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13317436
page(s): 188; note: Augener examined Rathke's Sabella volutacornis specimens [details]
From editor or global species database
New combination A new combination made by Rathke (1843) for Amphitrite volutacornis, although later taxonomists agree that Rathke described a specimen which was not the species Montagu had named. See Augener (1912: 188 for the details. Augener placed the specimen as a Chone. In other words Rathke made a misidentification, and this has complicated subsequent work to assign Montagu's species to a sabellid genus. [details]
