MSBIAS taxon details
Arabella iricolor (Montagu, 1804)
129854 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129854)
accepted
Species
Arabella (Arabella) iricolor (Montagu, 1804) · unaccepted (nominal subgenus not required)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of ) Montagu, G. (1804). Description of several marine animals found on the south coast of Devonshire. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society, London.</em> 7: 61-85, pls. 6-7., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/756268
page(s): 82 [no figures] [details]
page(s): 82 [no figures] [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Arabella iricolor (Montagu, 1804). Accessed through: The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2026) Marine Species of Britain, Ireland and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129854 on 2026-01-19
The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2026). Marine Species of Britain, Ireland and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications. Arabella iricolor (Montagu, 1804). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129854 on 2026-01-19
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(of ) Montagu, G. (1804). Description of several marine animals found on the south coast of Devonshire. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society, London.</em> 7: 61-85, pls. 6-7., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/756268
page(s): 82 [no figures] [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
context source (HKRMS) Wang, J. J. & Huang, Z. G. (1994). Fouling polychaetes of Hong Kong and adjacent waters. In Asian Marine Biology 10 (ed. Morton, B.), PP1-12. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong. [details]
basis of record Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source Pettibone, M. H. (1952). Checklist of Polychaeta of New England region. 1-32. [details]
additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
additional source Averincev, V. G. (1972). Benthic polychaetes Errantia from the Antarctic and Subantarctic collected by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition]. Issledovaniya fauny morei. <em>Zoologicheskii Institut Akademii Nauk USSR.</em> 11(19): 88-292 [Biological Results of the Soviet Antarctic Expeditions, 5].
page(s): 189, plate XXXIII fig. 12 [details] Available for editors
additional source Fauvel, P. (1911). Troisième note préliminaire sur les polychètes provenant des campagnes de l'Hirondelle et de la Princesse-Alice, ou déposées dans la Musée Océanographique de Monaco. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique de Monaco.</em> 194: 1-41., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46208770 [details]
additional source Fauvel, Pierre. (1919). Annélides polychètes de la Guyane Française. <em>Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.</em> 25(6): 472-479., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5027145 [details]
additional source Fauvel, P. (1933). Annélides polychètes du Golfe du Pei Tcheu Ly de la collection du Musée Hoang ho Pai ho. Récoltées par le R.P. Leroy, S.J. et le R.P. Licent S.J. <em>Publications du Musée Hoang ho Pai ho de Tien Tsin.</em> 15: 1-67.
page(s): 37 [details]
additional source Fauvel, P. (1923). Polychètes errantes. Faune de France. <em>Librairie de la Faculte des Sciences. Paris.</em> 5: 1-488., available online at http://www.faunedefrance.org/ [details]
additional source Hartman, O. (1942). A review of the types of polychaetous annelids at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University. <em>Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection, Yale University.</em> 8(1): 1-98. [details] Available for editors
additional source Hartman, Olga. (1942). The identity of some marine annelid worms in the United States National Museum. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 92(3142): 101-140., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15766789
page(s): 124; note: identifies some cotypes of Lumbriconereis tenuis tenuis Verril, 1873 as Arabella iricolor [details] Available for editors
additional source Hartman, Olga. (1944). Polychaetous Annelids. Part V. Eunicea. <em>Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions.</em> 10(1): 1-237., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4679950
page(s): 173 [details]
additional source Hartman, O. (1951). The littoral marine annelids of the Gulf of Mexico. <em>Publications of the Institute of Marine Science, Port Aransas, Texas.</em> 2(1): 7-124., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22162
page(s): 63 [details] Available for editors
additional source Hartman, Olga. (1956). Polychaetous annelids erected by Treadwell, 1891 to 1948, together with a brief chronology. <em>Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.</em> 109(2): 239-310., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/1145 [details] Available for editors
additional source 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. [details] Available for editors
additional source McIntosh, William Carmichael. (1910). A monograph of the British annelids. Polychaeta. Syllidae to Ariciidae. <em>Ray Society of London.</em> 2(2): 233-524., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38533042 [details]
additional source Monro, Charles Carmichael Arthur. (1930). Polychaete worms. <em>Discovery Reports, Cambridge.</em> 2: 1-222., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15904801
page(s): 142 [details]
additional source Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors
additional source Fauchald, K.; Granados-Barba, A.; Solís-Weiss, V. (2009). Polychaeta (Annelida) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 751–788 in D.L. Felder and D.K. Camp (eds.). <em>Gulf of Mexico. Origin, Waters, and Biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity.</em> Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas., available online at https://books.google.es/books?id=CphA8hiwaFIC&lpg=PR1&pg=PA751 [details]
additional source Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. <em>Northeastern Naturalist.</em> 11, 261-324., available online at http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/files/9793/TROTT-Cobscook%20List.pdf [details] Available for editors
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 Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
redescription Darbyshire, Teresa; Kara, Jyothi. (2024). Redescription of <i>Arabella iricolor</i> (Montagu, 1804) with descriptions of two new species from the United Kingdom and South Africa. <em>African Zoology.</em> Efirst: 1-21., available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15627020.2024.2306421
page(s): 7 of 22, figures 1-6, 7a-c; note: Redescription from holotype, plus new topotype specimens, and further museum specimens from the southern coast of England and from Wales. [details] Available for editors
page(s): 82 [no figures] [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
context source (HKRMS) Wang, J. J. & Huang, Z. G. (1994). Fouling polychaetes of Hong Kong and adjacent waters. In Asian Marine Biology 10 (ed. Morton, B.), PP1-12. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong. [details]
basis of record Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source Pettibone, M. H. (1952). Checklist of Polychaeta of New England region. 1-32. [details]
additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
additional source Averincev, V. G. (1972). Benthic polychaetes Errantia from the Antarctic and Subantarctic collected by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition]. Issledovaniya fauny morei. <em>Zoologicheskii Institut Akademii Nauk USSR.</em> 11(19): 88-292 [Biological Results of the Soviet Antarctic Expeditions, 5].
page(s): 189, plate XXXIII fig. 12 [details] Available for editors
additional source Fauvel, P. (1911). Troisième note préliminaire sur les polychètes provenant des campagnes de l'Hirondelle et de la Princesse-Alice, ou déposées dans la Musée Océanographique de Monaco. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique de Monaco.</em> 194: 1-41., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46208770 [details]
additional source Fauvel, Pierre. (1919). Annélides polychètes de la Guyane Française. <em>Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.</em> 25(6): 472-479., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5027145 [details]
additional source Fauvel, P. (1933). Annélides polychètes du Golfe du Pei Tcheu Ly de la collection du Musée Hoang ho Pai ho. Récoltées par le R.P. Leroy, S.J. et le R.P. Licent S.J. <em>Publications du Musée Hoang ho Pai ho de Tien Tsin.</em> 15: 1-67.
page(s): 37 [details]
additional source Fauvel, P. (1923). Polychètes errantes. Faune de France. <em>Librairie de la Faculte des Sciences. Paris.</em> 5: 1-488., available online at http://www.faunedefrance.org/ [details]
additional source Hartman, O. (1942). A review of the types of polychaetous annelids at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University. <em>Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection, Yale University.</em> 8(1): 1-98. [details] Available for editors
additional source Hartman, Olga. (1942). The identity of some marine annelid worms in the United States National Museum. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 92(3142): 101-140., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15766789
page(s): 124; note: identifies some cotypes of Lumbriconereis tenuis tenuis Verril, 1873 as Arabella iricolor [details] Available for editors
additional source Hartman, Olga. (1944). Polychaetous Annelids. Part V. Eunicea. <em>Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions.</em> 10(1): 1-237., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4679950
page(s): 173 [details]
additional source Hartman, O. (1951). The littoral marine annelids of the Gulf of Mexico. <em>Publications of the Institute of Marine Science, Port Aransas, Texas.</em> 2(1): 7-124., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22162
page(s): 63 [details] Available for editors
additional source Hartman, Olga. (1956). Polychaetous annelids erected by Treadwell, 1891 to 1948, together with a brief chronology. <em>Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.</em> 109(2): 239-310., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/1145 [details] Available for editors
additional source 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. [details] Available for editors
additional source McIntosh, William Carmichael. (1910). A monograph of the British annelids. Polychaeta. Syllidae to Ariciidae. <em>Ray Society of London.</em> 2(2): 233-524., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38533042 [details]
additional source Monro, Charles Carmichael Arthur. (1930). Polychaete worms. <em>Discovery Reports, Cambridge.</em> 2: 1-222., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15904801
page(s): 142 [details]
additional source Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors
additional source Fauchald, K.; Granados-Barba, A.; Solís-Weiss, V. (2009). Polychaeta (Annelida) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 751–788 in D.L. Felder and D.K. Camp (eds.). <em>Gulf of Mexico. Origin, Waters, and Biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity.</em> Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas., available online at https://books.google.es/books?id=CphA8hiwaFIC&lpg=PR1&pg=PA751 [details]
additional source Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. <em>Northeastern Naturalist.</em> 11, 261-324., available online at http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/files/9793/TROTT-Cobscook%20List.pdf [details] Available for editors
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 Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
redescription Darbyshire, Teresa; Kara, Jyothi. (2024). Redescription of <i>Arabella iricolor</i> (Montagu, 1804) with descriptions of two new species from the United Kingdom and South Africa. <em>African Zoology.</em> Efirst: 1-21., available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15627020.2024.2306421
page(s): 7 of 22, figures 1-6, 7a-c; note: Redescription from holotype, plus new topotype specimens, and further museum specimens from the southern coast of England and from Wales. [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (13 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (44 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Arabella iricolor)
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 12 proteins)
To PESI (from synonym Arabella (Arabella) iricolor (Montagu, 1804))
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (61 records)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 072337)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (44 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Arabella iricolor)
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 12 proteins)
To PESI (from synonym Arabella (Arabella) iricolor (Montagu, 1804))
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (61 records)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 072337)
To ITIS
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