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Polychaeta taxon details

Arabella multidentata (Ehlers, 1887)

421067 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:421067)

accepted
Species
Arabella maculosa Verrill, 1900 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (subjective synonym)
Aracoda multidentata Ehlers, 1887 · unaccepted > superseded combination (superseded original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Aracoda multidentata Ehlers, 1887) Ehlers, E. (1887). Reports on the results of dredging, under the direction of L. F. Pourtalès, during the years 1868-1870, and of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78), and in the Caribbean Sea (1878-79), in the U.S. Coast Survey steamer "Blake", Lieut-Com. C. D. Sigsbee, U.S.N. and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXXI. Report on the Annelids. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 15: vi & 335 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30734338
page(s): 112-113, plate 34 figs. 8-9, plate 35 figs. 1-4 [details] 
Type locality contained in Atlantic Ocean  
type locality contained in Atlantic Ocean [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Distribution Western Atlantic: North Carolina to the Gulf of Mexico  
Distribution Western Atlantic: North Carolina to the Gulf of Mexico [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Arabella multidentata (Ehlers, 1887). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=421067 on 2026-09-14
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2009-10-06 12:38:14Z
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2010-04-09 09:02:58Z
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original description (of Aracoda multidentata Ehlers, 1887) Ehlers, E. (1887). Reports on the results of dredging, under the direction of L. F. Pourtalès, during the years 1868-1870, and of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78), and in the Caribbean Sea (1878-79), in the U.S. Coast Survey steamer "Blake", Lieut-Com. C. D. Sigsbee, U.S.N. and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXXI. Report on the Annelids. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 15: vi & 335 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30734338
page(s): 112-113, plate 34 figs. 8-9, plate 35 figs. 1-4 [details] 

original description (of Arabella maculosa Verrill, 1900) Verrill, A.E. 1900. Additions to the Turbellaria, Nemertina, and Annelida of the Bermudas, with revisions of some New England genera and species. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 10(2): 595-671., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27731368
page(s): 651 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record 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] 

redescription Colbath, George Kent. (1989). A revision of <i>Arabella mutans</i> (Chamberlin, 1919) and related species (Polychaeta: Arabellidae). <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 102(2): 283-299., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34606880
page(s): 293-294, figs. 4i, 6b, 7, tables 1-2; note: redescription based on holotype and additional material [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

new combination reference Hartman, Olga. (1938). Annotated list of the types of polychaetous annelids in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 85(1): 3-31, plates 1-3., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4537955
page(s): 12; note: recombined from Aracoda [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Distribution Western Atlantic: North Carolina to the Gulf of Mexico [details]
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