WoRMS name details
Sabella brachychona Claparède, 1870
339952 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:339952)
unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Claparède, Édouard. (1870). Les Annélides Chétopodes du Golfe de Naples. Supplément. <em>Mémoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève.</em> 20(2): 365-542 [separate pagination at page top, continuous pagination at bottom]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2094031
page(s): 139 or 503 (same page, 2 paginations) [details]
page(s): 139 or 503 (same page, 2 paginations) [details]
Type locality contained in Gulf of Naples (Italy)
, Note Mediterranean Sea, Gulf of Naples
type locality contained in Gulf of Naples (Italy) [details]
Unreviewed
Type locality Mediterranean Sea, Gulf of Naples [details]
Taxonomy possibly indeterminable
Taxonomy possibly indeterminable [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Sabella brachychona Claparède, 1870. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=339952 on 2025-04-03
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Nomenclature
original description
Claparède, Édouard. (1870). Les Annélides Chétopodes du Golfe de Naples. Supplément. <em>Mémoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève.</em> 20(2): 365-542 [separate pagination at page top, continuous pagination at bottom]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2094031
page(s): 139 or 503 (same page, 2 paginations) [details]
page(s): 139 or 503 (same page, 2 paginations) [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Fauvel, P. (1927). Polychètes sédentaires. Addenda aux errantes, Arachiannélides, Myzostomaires. <em>Faune de France Volume 16. Paul Lechevalier. Paris.</em> 1-494., available online at http://www.faunedefrance.org/bibliotheque/docs/P.FAUVEL(FdeFr16)Polychetes-sendentaires.pdf [details]
source of synonymy Knight-Jones, Phyllis. (1983). Contributions to the taxonomy of Sabellidae (Polychaeta. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London.</em> 79: 245-295., available online at https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/79/3/245/2661635
page(s): 259 [details] Available for editors
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source of synonymy Tovar-Hernández, María Ana ; Harris, Leslie, H. 2010: Parasabella Bush, 1905, replacement name for the polychaete genus Demonax Kinberg, 1867 (Annelida, Polychaeta, Sabellidae). ZooKeys 60: 13–19. , available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.60.547
note: although the authors do not formally synonymize Sabella brachychona, it is clear they regard it as a synonym of Parasabella saxicola [details]
source of synonymy Knight-Jones, Phyllis. (1983). Contributions to the taxonomy of Sabellidae (Polychaeta. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London.</em> 79: 245-295., available online at https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/79/3/245/2661635
page(s): 259 [details] Available for editors
[request]source of synonymy Tovar-Hernández, María Ana ; Harris, Leslie, H. 2010: Parasabella Bush, 1905, replacement name for the polychaete genus Demonax Kinberg, 1867 (Annelida, Polychaeta, Sabellidae). ZooKeys 60: 13–19. , available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.60.547
note: although the authors do not formally synonymize Sabella brachychona, it is clear they regard it as a synonym of Parasabella saxicola [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Spelling The original spelling is Sabella brachychona, not 'brachyona'. Claparède also uses Sabella brachychona in the captions for the plates. The misspelling 'brachyona' seems to be a modern lapsus. [details]Taxonomy possibly indeterminable [details]
Unreviewed
Specimen types not retained [details]Type locality Mediterranean Sea, Gulf of Naples [details]
