WoRMS taxon details
original description
Peters, Wilhelm C.H. (1854). Über die Gattung <i>Bdella</i>, Savigny, (<i>Limnatis</i>, Moquin-Tandon) und die in Mossambique beobachteten Anneliden, wovon hier eine Mittheilung folgt [informal title in meeting report]. <em>Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.</em> 1854: 607-614., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11068511 page(s): 614 [details]
additional source
Peters, W. 1855. Ueber die Gattung Bdella Sav. und die in Mossambique beobachteten Anneliden Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin, 21(1): 35-42. [reprinted from 1854], available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6651050 [details]
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy Sabella mossambica Peters, 1854 is not treated by Knight-Jones & Perkins (1998) in their generic revision. Day (1967:752) hints it may be Sabella fusca Grube, but the species so named is also inadequately defined. [details]From other sources
Type locality Indian Ocean, Inhambane, Mozambique [details]
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