WoRMS name details
Tubularia penicillus [sensu] Fabricius, 1780
337925 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:337925)
unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Fabricius, O. (1780). Fauna Groenlandica, systematice sistens animalia groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quoad nomen specificium, triviale, vernaculumque, synonyma auctorum plurimum, descriptionem, locum, victum, generationem, mores, usum capturamque singuli, pro ut detegendi occasio fuit, maximaque parte secundum proprias observationes. [Fauna Greenland, systematically presenting the animals of Western Greenland so far investigated, as to the specific name, trivial, vernacular, synonyms of the authors for the most part, description, place, life, generation, manners, use and catch of each one, as there was an opportunity to discover, and for the most part according to personal observations.]. <em>Hafniae [= Copenhagen] & Lipsiae [= Leipzig], Ioannis Gottlob Rothe.</em> xvi + 452 pp., 1 pl., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13442285 [details] 
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Tubularia penicillus [sensu] Fabricius, 1780. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=337925 on 2026-10-04
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Nomenclature
original description
Fabricius, O. (1780). Fauna Groenlandica, systematice sistens animalia groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quoad nomen specificium, triviale, vernaculumque, synonyma auctorum plurimum, descriptionem, locum, victum, generationem, mores, usum capturamque singuli, pro ut detegendi occasio fuit, maximaque parte secundum proprias observationes. [Fauna Greenland, systematically presenting the animals of Western Greenland so far investigated, as to the specific name, trivial, vernacular, synonyms of the authors for the most part, description, place, life, generation, manners, use and catch of each one, as there was an opportunity to discover, and for the most part according to personal observations.]. <em>Hafniae [= Copenhagen] & Lipsiae [= Leipzig], Ioannis Gottlob Rothe.</em> xvi + 452 pp., 1 pl., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13442285 [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628.
page(s): 568; note: referred Tubularia penicillus to Chone infundibuliformis. According to Knight-Jones & Perkins (1988) this referral comes from Malmgren (1866) [details] Available for editors
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source of synonymy Knight-Jones, Phyllis; Perkins, Thomas H. (1998). A revision of Sabella, Bispira and Stylomma (Polychaeta: Sabellidae). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London.</em> 123: 385-467., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1998.tb01370.x
page(s): 404; note: included in the synonymy of Sabella flabellata, & is NOT Tubularia penicillus of Müller, 1776 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 568; note: referred Tubularia penicillus to Chone infundibuliformis. According to Knight-Jones & Perkins (1988) this referral comes from Malmgren (1866) [details] Available for editors
[request]source of synonymy Knight-Jones, Phyllis; Perkins, Thomas H. (1998). A revision of Sabella, Bispira and Stylomma (Polychaeta: Sabellidae). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London.</em> 123: 385-467., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1998.tb01370.x
page(s): 404; note: included in the synonymy of Sabella flabellata, & is NOT Tubularia penicillus of Müller, 1776 [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Synonymy Tubularia penicillus is a confused much used name. Currently following Knight-Jones & Perkins (1998) in referring the usage of Fabricius (1780) to Sabella flabellata Savigny, a name placed by them as a species inquirenda [details]Unreviewed
Type locality Arctic Ocean, Greenland [details]
