WoRMS taxon details
original description
Grube, Adolf Eduard. (1850). Die Familien der Anneliden. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin.</em> 16(1): 249-364., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6958350 [details]
original description
(of Maclovia Grube, 1871) Grube, A. E. (1871). Nachtraege zur vorigem und Vorlage einer Lumbriconereis gigantea Qfg., einer neuen Oenone und Serolis. <em>Jahres-Bericht der Schlesiche Gesellschaft für vaterländische Cultur, Breslau.</em> 49: 56-58., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37203217 page(s): 58; note: Maclovia is introduced in text flow and Grube does not actually use the combination 'Maclovia gigantea' [details]
original description
(of Notopsilus Ehlers, 1868) Ehlers, E. H. (1868). Die Borstenwürmer (Annelida Chaetopoda) nach systematischen und anatomischen Untersuchungen dargestellt. <em>Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig.</em> 2: 269-748, plates XII-XXIV., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1985162 page(s): 406 [details]
original description
(of Aracoda Schmarda, 1861) Schmarda, L. K. (1861). Neue Wirbellose Thiere: Beobachted und Gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erdr 1853 bis 1857. <em>In Turbellarien, Rotatorien und Anneliden. Leipzig, Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann.</em> Erster Band, Zweite Hälfte., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/neuewirbelloseth21861schm page(s): 114, 115 [details]
original description
(of Lais Kinberg, 1865) Kinberg, J.G.H. (1865). Annulata nova. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 21(10): 559-574., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32289129 page(s): 572 [details]
original description
(of Cenothrix Chamberlin, 1919) Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1919). The Annelida Polychaeta [Albatross Expeditions]. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 48: 1-514., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/memoirsofmuseumo4801harv page(s): 325, 329 [details]
taxonomy source
Ehlers, E. H. (1864). Die Borstenwürmer (Annelida Chaetopoda) nach systematischen und anatomischen Untersuchungen dargestellt. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1985759 page(s): 398; note: Ehlers (1864:398) used Arabella as valid, based on Lumbriconereis quadristriata Grube, which he then describes [details]
taxonomy source
McIntosh, W.C. (1903). Notes from the Gatty Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews. No. 24. 1. On the frequency of the occurrence of pearls in the mussel (Mytilus edulis) 2. The effects of marine piscatorial birds on the food fishes 3. On the British Eunicidae. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 11: 553-565., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19368108 page(s): 563; note: One of the first to use Arabella iricolor and treat various other names as its synonyms [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]
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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Etymology Arabella is a female personal name in use at the time Grube was writing, and in use in Europe since at least the middle ages. The spelling is thought to be ultimately from Celtic. The first high-profile English bearer of the name was royal claimant Arabella Stuart (1575–1615) [fide Wikipedia]. [details]
Grammatical gender Arabella is feminine as it derives from a female given name. All the adjectival species-group names in Arabella correctly have feminine endings. [details]
Homonymy Arabella Grube, 1850 is a senior generic homonym to Arabella Robineau-Desvoidy 1863: 88 in Diptera (Insecta), Histoire naturelle des diptères des environs de Paris, volume 2, https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.8550 [details]
Taxonomy McIntosh 1903) is one of the first to use the combination Arabella iricolor and treat various other names as its synonyms. Earlier, subsequent to the undetailed creation of the genus by Grube, Ehlers (1864:398) had adopted Arabella as valid, based on Lumbriconereis quadristriata Grube, of which he then described specimens which he thought matched the original account of Grube (1840) [details]
Type designation Grube (1850: 293) assigned Lumbriconereis quadristriata Grube, 1840, Gulf of Naples, and Oenone maculata Milne Edwards, 1836, France unspecified, to Arabella when he introduced the genus name. Only these two species Grube first included can be subsequently designated as type species of Arabella (Code article 67.2). Nereis iricolor Montagu, 1804 (currently Arabella iricolor), the senior name currently in the genus, CANNOT be the type species of Arabella, as Grube gives no mention of it. However, in the past it is invariably wrongly stated to be the type species, probably influenced by the Hartman Catalogue (1959: 339) where it is stated to be the genotype (it was Hartman's practice to name senior synonyms as 'genotype' instead of the actual type species, but the current Code expressly states this practice should not occur. ) [details]
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