WoRMS name details
Sabella indica Savigny, 1822
331580 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:331580)
unaccepted (homonym junior to Sabella indica Gmelin, 1791 in Pectinariidae)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Savigny, Jules-César. (1822). Système des annélides, principalement de celles des côtes de l'Égypte et de la Syrie, offrant les caractères tant distinctifs que naturels des Ordres, Familles et Genres, avec la Description des Espèces. <em>Description de l'Égypte ou Recueil des Observations et des Recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'Expédition de l'Armée Française, publié par les Ordres de sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand, Histoire Naturelle, Paris.</em> 1(3):1–128., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41329897
page(s): 77; note: Mer des Indes. Short description based on museum specimen labelled Sabella grandis, (Cuvier, collection of the museum) collected by Peron, communicated by Lamarck [details]
page(s): 77; note: Mer des Indes. Short description based on museum specimen labelled Sabella grandis, (Cuvier, collection of the museum) collected by Peron, communicated by Lamarck [details]
Note Indian Ocean
Unreviewed
Type locality Indian Ocean [details]
Homonymy Savigny's name is clearly independent of the Sabella indica name published in Gmelin, 1791. There is no connection at all,...
Taxonomy Year of description uncertain
Homonymy Savigny's name is clearly independent of the Sabella indica name published in Gmelin, 1791. There is no connection at all, and the Gmelin name is for a pectinariid described but not named in Abildgaard (1789). Therefore Savigny's Sabella indica is a junior primary homonym and must be replaced by the next available synonym, which Knight-Jones & Mackie 2003 determine is Sabellastarte spectabilis (Grube, 1878) [details]
Taxonomy Year of description uncertain
Taxonomy Year of description uncertain [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Sabella indica Savigny, 1822. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=331580 on 2025-04-05
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Nomenclature
original description
Savigny, Jules-César. (1822). Système des annélides, principalement de celles des côtes de l'Égypte et de la Syrie, offrant les caractères tant distinctifs que naturels des Ordres, Familles et Genres, avec la Description des Espèces. <em>Description de l'Égypte ou Recueil des Observations et des Recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'Expédition de l'Armée Française, publié par les Ordres de sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand, Histoire Naturelle, Paris.</em> 1(3):1–128., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41329897
page(s): 77; note: Mer des Indes. Short description based on museum specimen labelled Sabella grandis, (Cuvier, collection of the museum) collected by Peron, communicated by Lamarck [details]
page(s): 77; note: Mer des Indes. Short description based on museum specimen labelled Sabella grandis, (Cuvier, collection of the museum) collected by Peron, communicated by Lamarck [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628. [details] Available for editors 
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status source Knight-Jones, Phyllis and Mackie, Andrew S. Y. 2003. A revision of Sabellastarte (Polychaete: Sabellidae). Journal of Natural History, 37(19): 2269-2301., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930110120629
page(s): 2274 [details]
[request]status source Knight-Jones, Phyllis and Mackie, Andrew S. Y. 2003. A revision of Sabellastarte (Polychaete: Sabellidae). Journal of Natural History, 37(19): 2269-2301., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930110120629
page(s): 2274 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Homonymy Savigny's name is clearly independent of the Sabella indica name published in Gmelin, 1791. There is no connection at all, and the Gmelin name is for a pectinariid described but not named in Abildgaard (1789). Therefore Savigny's Sabella indica is a junior primary homonym and must be replaced by the next available synonym, which Knight-Jones & Mackie 2003 determine is Sabellastarte spectabilis (Grube, 1878) [details]Unreviewed
Specimen Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, POLY TYPE 608, 609 [details]Taxonomy Year of description uncertain [details]
Type locality Indian Ocean [details]
