original description
Wagner, Nicholas. (1872). [New group of annelids]. <em>Trudy Imperatorskago Sankt-Peterburgskago Obshchestva.</em> 3: 344-347, Plate 33, fig.8-11 (all in Russian, no English/French/German summary). (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record
Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Day, J. H. (1967). [Errantia] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. vi, 1–458, xxix., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]
additional source
Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Homonymy Sagitella is a homonym. Probable that senior Sagitella Blainville, 1827 in Chaetognatha is not in use. [details]Unreviewed
Type species Type species S. kowalewskii Wagner 1872 in Fauchald, 1977<246>. [details]