World Polychaeta Database - Arabella (Arabella) Grube, 1850

Polychaeta taxon details

Arabella (Arabella) Grube, 1850

AphiaID

325582 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:325582)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Subgenus

Parent

Arabella Grube, 1850

Original name

Arabella Grube, 1850

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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)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Arabella Grube, 1850) Grube, Adolf Eduard. (1850). Die Familien der Anneliden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin. 16(1): 249-364., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6958350
page(s): 293; note: for Lumbriconereis quadristriata Grube, 1840 and Oenone maculata Milne Edwards, 1836 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta database. Arabella (Arabella) Grube, 1850. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=325582 on 2026-08-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-03-11 10:36:40Z

created

Decock, Wim

2008-03-26 11:36:43Z

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Fauchald, Kristian

2011-11-20 02:50:45Z

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Read, Geoffrey

2019-10-23 22:16:50Z

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Read, Geoffrey

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original description (of Arabella Grube, 1850) Grube, Adolf Eduard. (1850). Die Familien der Anneliden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin. 16(1): 249-364., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6958350
page(s): 293; note: for Lumbriconereis quadristriata Grube, 1840 and Oenone maculata Milne Edwards, 1836 [details]

basis of record Orensanz, José María. (1974). Los anelidos poliquetos de la provincia biogeografica Argentina. VI. Arabellidae. Physis. Sección A. 33(87): 381-408.
page(s): 383; note: nominal subgenus established [details] Available for editors

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Editor's comment Zanol & Ruta (2015) used Cenothrix Chamberlin, 1919 as a subgenus, following Orensanz (1974). Therefore the editor comment that the nominal subgenus Arabella (Arabella) was not required is no longer correct. [details]

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