WoRMS taxon details
Arabella Grube, 1850
129199 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129199)
accepted
Genus
none (type not designated)
Aracoda Schmarda, 1861 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Cenothrix Chamberlin, 1919 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (subjective synonym)
Lais Kinberg, 1865 · unaccepted (junior homonym, replaced by...)
junior homonym, replaced by Notopsilus, subjective synonym to Arabella
Maclovia Grube, 1871 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Notopsilus Ehlers, 1868 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
- Subgenus Arabella (Arabella) Grube, 1850
- Species Arabella (Arabella) pulvinata Zanol & Ruta, 2015
- Species Arabella (Arabella) iricolor (Montagu, 1804) accepted as Arabella iricolor (Montagu, 1804) (nominal subgenus not required)
- Species Arabella (Arabella) pectinata Fauchald, 1970 accepted as Arabella pectinata Fauchald, 1970 (nominal subgenus not required)
- Species Arabella (Arabella) protomutans Orensanz, 1990 accepted as Arabella protomutans Orensanz, 1990 (nominal subgenus not required)
- Species Arabella (Arabella) semimaculata (Moore, 1911) accepted as Arabella semimaculata (Moore, 1911) (nominal subgenus not required)
- Subgenus Arabella (Cenothrix) Chamberlin, 1919
- Species Arabella (Cenothrix) mutans (Chamberlin, 1919)
- Species Arabella (Cenothrix) robusta Zanol & Ruta, 2015
- Species Cenothrix mutans Chamberlin, 1919 accepted as Arabella mutans (Chamberlin, 1919) (superseded original combination)
- Species Arabella ampulliformis Darbyshire & Kara, 2024
- Species Arabella aracaensis Steiner & Amaral, 2009
- Species Arabella atlantica Crossland, 1924
- Species Arabella cincta Hartmann-Schröder, 1962
- Species Arabella coeca Fauvel, 1940
- Species Arabella endonata Emerson, 1974
- Species Arabella geniculata (Claparède, 1868)
- Species Arabella iricolor (Montagu, 1804)
- Species Arabella iridescens Treadwell, 1906
- Species Arabella logani Crossland, 1924
- Species Arabella longicirrata Hartmann-Schröder, 1979
- Species Arabella longipedata Monro, 1931
- Species Arabella maculifera (Grube, 1878)
- Species Arabella mimetica Chamberlin, 1919
- Species Arabella monroi Colbath, 1989
- Species Arabella mutans (Chamberlin, 1919)
- Species Arabella nesidensis (Delle Chiaje, 1828)
- Species Arabella panamensis Colbath, 1989
- Species Arabella pectinata Fauchald, 1970
- Species Arabella protomutans Orensanz, 1990
- Species Arabella renierii (Grube, 1877)
- Species Arabella rolandi (Delle Chiaje, 1828)
- Species Arabella semimaculata (Moore, 1911)
- Species Arabella umgazanae Darbyshire & Kara, 2024
- Species Arabella zonata (Moore, 1903)
- Species Arabella attenuata Treadwell, 1906 accepted as Notocirrus attenuatus (Treadwell, 1906) (superseded original combination)
- Species Arabella dubia Hansen, 1882 accepted as Lumbrineris janeirensis (Augener, 1934) accepted as Arabelloneris janeirensis (Augener, 1934) (subjective synonym)
- Species Arabella lagunae Chamberlin, 1919 accepted as Arabella iricolor (Montagu, 1804) (subjective synonym)
- Species Arabella maculata (Milne Edwards, 1836) accepted as Arabella iricolor (Montagu, 1804) (unaccepted > superseded combination, superseded subsequent combination of subjective synonym)
- Species Arabella maculosa Verrill, 1900 accepted as Arabella iricolor (Montagu, 1804) (subjective synonym)
- Species Arabella multidentata (Ehlers, 1887) accepted as Arabella iricolor (Montagu, 1804) (alternate representation of otherwise junior synonym)
- Species Arabella munda Chamberlin, 1918 accepted as Arabella semimaculata (Moore, 1911) (subjective synonym)
- Species Arabella novecrinita Crossland, 1924 accepted as Arabella mutans (Chamberlin, 1919) (subjective synonym)
- Species Arabella pacifica Treadwell, 1941 accepted as Arabella semimaculata (Moore, 1911) (subjective synonym)
- Species Arabella planiceps Grube, 1878 accepted as Drilonereis planiceps (Grube, 1878) (superseded original combination)
- Species Arabella quadristriata (Grube, 1840) accepted as Arabella iricolor (Montagu, 1804) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, subsequent combination of subjective synonym)
- Species Arabella setosa Treadwell, 1921 accepted as Arabella iricolor (Montagu, 1804) (subjective synonym)
- Species Arabella spinifera Moore, 1907 accepted as Notocirrus spiniferus (Moore, 1907) (superseded original combination)
- Species Arabella debilis (Ehlers, 1887) accepted as Drilonereis debilis (Ehlers, 1887) (uncertain > nomen dubium, uncertain if this combination has been published)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
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]
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...
Homonymy Arabella Grube, 1850 is a senior generic homonym to Arabella Robineau-Desvoidy 1863: 88 in Diptera (Insecta), Histoire...
Taxonomy McIntosh 1903) is one of the first to use the combination Arabella iricolor and treat various other names as its synonyms....
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]
Homonymy Arabella Grube, 1850 is a senior generic homonym to Arabella Robineau-Desvoidy 1863: 88 in Diptera (Insecta), Histoire...
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....
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]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Arabella Grube, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129199 on 2024-04-24
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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]
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]
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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]
