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Parasabella Bush, 1905

325958  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:325958)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Annelida (Phylum)
  4. Polychaeta (Class)
  5. Sedentaria (Subclass)
  6. Canalipalpata (Infraclass)
  7. Sabellida (Order)
  8. Sabellidae (Family)
  9. Sabellinae (Subfamily)
  10. Parasabella (Genus)
accepted
Genus
Parasabella media Bush, 1905 (type by original designation)
Demonax Kinberg, 1867 · unaccepted (junior homonym, replaced by next...)  
junior homonym, replaced by next synonym
Distylidia Hartman, 1961 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Sabella (Demonax) [sensu Banse, 1979] · unaccepted (superseded recombination, taxa...)  
superseded recombination, taxa split to Parasabella (replacement name for Demonax) & Bispira

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  1. Species Parasabella aberrans (Augener, 1926)
  2. Species Parasabella albicans (Johansson, 1922)
  3. Species Parasabella aulaconota (Marenzeller, 1884)
  4. Species Parasabella bioculata Capa & Murray, 2015
  5. Species Parasabella brevithoracica (Pillai, 1961)
  6. Species Parasabella cambrensis (Knight-Jones & Walker, 1985)
  7. Species Parasabella columbi (Kinberg, 1867)
  8. Species Parasabella crassichaetae Capa & Murray, 2015
  9. Species Parasabella fernandezensis (Augener, 1922)
  10. Species Parasabella flecata Hoagland, 1919
  11. Species Parasabella fullo (Grube, 1878)
  12. Species Parasabella jamaicensis Augener, 1922
  13. Species Parasabella japonica (Moore & Bush, 1904)
  14. Species Parasabella lacunosa (Perkins, 1984)
  15. Species Parasabella langerhansi (Knight-Jones, 1983)
  16. Species Parasabella leucaspis (Kinberg, 1867)
  17. Species Parasabella media Bush, 1905
  18. Species Parasabella microphthalma (Verrill, 1873)
  19. Species Parasabella oculea (Pillai, 1965)
  20. Species Parasabella pallida Moore, 1923
  21. Species Parasabella polarsterni (Gambi, Patti, Micaletto & Giangrande, 2001)
  22. Species Parasabella rufovittata (Grube, 1881)
  23. Species Parasabella rugosa (Moore, 1904)
  24. Species Parasabella saxicola (Grube, 1861)
  25. Species Parasabella tenuicollaris (Grube, 1871)
  26. Species Parasabella tommasi (Giangrande, 1994)
  27. Species Parasabella torulis (Knight-Jones & Walker, 1985)
  28. Species Parasabella yonowae Tovar-Hernández, de León-González & Bybee, 2017
  29. Species Parasabella fonticula Hoagland, 1919 accepted as Perkinsiana fonticula (Hoagland, 1919) (superseded original combination)
  30. Species Parasabella maculata Bush, 1905 accepted as Parasabella media Bush, 1905 (subjective synonym)
  31. Species Parasabella midoculi Hoagland, 1919 accepted as Notaulax midoculi (Hoagland, 1919) (superseded original combination)
  32. Species Parasabella minuta Treadwell, 1941 accepted as Sabellomma minutum (Treadwell, 1941) (superseded original combination)
  33. Species Parasabella sulfurea Treadwell, 1917 accepted as Notaulax occidentalis (Baird, 1865) (subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Bush, K.J. (1904 (1905)). Tubicolous annelids of the tribes Sabellides and Serpulides from the Pacific Ocean. <em>Harriman Alaska Expedition.</em> 12: 169-346, plates XXI-XLIV., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22063650
page(s): 199 [details] 
Note Tovar-Hernández & Harris (2010) state that...  
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Type species Tovar-Hernández & Harris (2010) state that Demonax krusensterni, type of Demonax, becomes type species of a revalidated Parasabella (when that genus name replaces its senior synonym Demonax because Demonax is unavailable due to junior homonymy). However, this is incorrect. The respective type species do not change. It would be destabilizing to taxonomy if they did, and fundamentally contrary to how the scope of name usages must always relate to their type species, ultimately represented by the holotype of that species. Later Capa & Murray (2015) correctly continue Bush's Parasabella type species of Parasabella media Bush. [details]
Etymology Not stated but clearly named because Bush considered Parasabella species resembled typical Sabella in form. Her diagnosis...  
Etymology Not stated but clearly named because Bush considered Parasabella species resembled typical Sabella in form. Her diagnosis (qv) does not however contrast Parasabella character states with those of Sabella which probably had a looser definition then in 1905 than it does now. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Parasabella Bush, 1905. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=325958 on 2025-07-14
Date
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2008-03-14 12:50:56Z
created
Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed
Fauchald, Kristian
2010-09-11 06:05:46Z
changed
Read, Geoffrey
2010-10-07 22:49:03Z
changed
Read, Geoffrey
2017-07-02 20:49:35Z
changed
Read, Geoffrey

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Nomenclature

original description Bush, K.J. (1904 (1905)). Tubicolous annelids of the tribes Sabellides and Serpulides from the Pacific Ocean. <em>Harriman Alaska Expedition.</em> 12: 169-346, plates XXI-XLIV., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22063650
page(s): 199 [details] 

original description (of Distylidia Hartman, 1961) Hartman, Olga. (1961). Polychaetous annelids from California. <em>Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions.</em> 25: 1-226., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5214802
page(s): 129 [details] 

original description (of Demonax Kinberg, 1867) Kinberg, J.G.H. (1866 [or 1867]). Annulata nova. [Continuatio.]. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 23(9): 337-357., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32287795
page(s): 354 [details] OpenAccess publication

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Capa, María; Murray, Anna. (2015). Integrative taxonomy of Parasabella and Sabellomma (Sabellidae: Annelida) from Australia: description of new species, indication of cryptic diversity, and translocation of some species out of their natural distribution range. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 175(4): 764-811., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zoj.12308/abstract
note: australian Parasabella reviewed [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

source of synonymy Perkins, Thomas H. (1984). Revision of <i>Demonax</i> Kinberg, <i>Hypsicomus</i> Grube, and <i>Notaulax</i> Tauber, with a review of <i>Megalomma</i> Johansson from Florida (Polychaeta: Sabellidae). <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 97(2): 285-368., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34553607
page(s): 292 [details] 

status source 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
page(s): 14 [details] 

 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
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Diagnosis The original diagnosis by Bush (1905:199) is as follows: Parasabella "is proposed for species which, though resembling typical Sabellas in form, have the branchial lobes small, but slightly prolonged ventrally, with the branchiae not so distinctly four-sided, and connected by a very slightly developed, posterior, interbranchial, membranous web. The collar bilobed, without lateral incisions, widely separated on the back, ending in more or less angular ventral ends. All the fascicles of chaetae laterally elongated. Chaetae on the thorax of two forms ; superior ones long, regularly tapered ; inferior ones shorter, broader, and oblanceolate. Tori with avicular uncini and pennoned chaetae."
The diagnosis of Cap & Murray (2015) is restricted to companion chaetae morphology as follows: "Thoracic neuropodial companion chaetae with subdistal end enlarged, conspicuous microtubercles forming hood, resulting in dentate appearance at base of hood, and with thin distal mucro compressed laterally"
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Etymology Not stated but clearly named because Bush considered Parasabella species resembled typical Sabella in form. Her diagnosis (qv) does not however contrast Parasabella character states with those of Sabella which probably had a looser definition then in 1905 than it does now. [details]

Type species Tovar-Hernández & Harris (2010) state that Demonax krusensterni, type of Demonax, becomes type species of a revalidated Parasabella (when that genus name replaces its senior synonym Demonax because Demonax is unavailable due to junior homonymy). However, this is incorrect. The respective type species do not change. It would be destabilizing to taxonomy if they did, and fundamentally contrary to how the scope of name usages must always relate to their type species, ultimately represented by the holotype of that species. Later Capa & Murray (2015) correctly continue Bush's Parasabella type species of Parasabella media Bush. [details]
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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Demonax) (from synonym Demonax Kinberg, 1867)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Parasabella) 
To Genbank 
To Genbank (from synonym Demonax Kinberg, 1867)
To Genbank (from synonym Demonax Kinberg, 1867)
To Genbank (from synonym Demonax Kinberg, 1867)
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