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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] OpenAccess publication
Type locality contained in Greenlandic part of the Arctic Ocean  
type locality contained in Greenlandic part of the Arctic Ocean [details]
Note Arctic Ocean, Greenland  
Type locality Arctic Ocean, Greenland [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). 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 2025-05-31
Date
action
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2008-03-18 12:55:09Z
created
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed
2022-04-28 22:31:15Z
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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] OpenAccess publication

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  PDF available [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  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
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]