• Hypsicomus Grube, A.-E. 1870. Bemerkungen über Anneliden des Pariser Museums. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 36: 281-352 [348].

  Type species:

   Sabella phaeotaenia Schmarda, 1861 by original designation.
• Eurato Saint-Joseph, A. de 1894. Les Annélides polychètes des côtes de Dinard. Troisième Partie. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris 7 17: 1-395 [249].
• Hypsicomatides Augener, H. 1922. Ueber litorale Polychaeten von Westindien. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 3: 38-53 [49].
• Hypsicomatopsis Augener, H. 1922. Ueber litorale Polychaeten von Westindien. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 3: 38-53 [49].
• Notaulax Tauber, P. 1879. Annulata Danica. En kritisk Revision af de i Danmark fundne Annulata, Chaetognatha, Gephyrea, Balanoglossi, Discophorae, Oligochaeta, Gymnocopa og Polychaeta. Copenhagen : Reitzel pp. 1-144. [136].
• Protulides Webster, H.E. 1884. Annelida from Bermuda. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 25: 305-327 [325].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central W coast, Gulf of Carp., Lower E coast, NE coast, NW coast
• New Zealand
  • North Island
  • South Island

Oriental Region

• Sri Lanka

History of changes

• Hypsicomus longithoracalis Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1980. Teil 4. Die Polychaeten der tropischen Nordwestküste Australiens (zwischen Port Samson im Norden und Exmouth im Süden). In Hartmann-Schröder, G. & Hartmann, G. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeta. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 41-110 pp. [79-80].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMH P-16381 (broken, 51 chaetigers), Onslow, Western Australia.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Onslow, WA.

Known only from type locality.

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: NW coast

Ecological Descriptors

Rock reef.

History of changes

• Sabella phaeotaenia Schmarda, L.K. 1861. Neue Turbellarian, Rotatorien und Anneliden beobachtet und gesammelt auf einer Reise un die Erde 1853 bis 1857. Erster Band (zweite halfte). Leipzig : Wilhelm Engelmann pp. 1-164. [35].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Ceylon.
• Sabella velata Haswell, W.A. 1884. The marine annelids of the order Serpulea. Some observations on their anatomy, with the characteristics of the Australian species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 9: 649-675 [671-672].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Port Jackson, New South Wales.
• Sabella monophthalma Augener, H. 1922. Australische Polychaeten des Hamburger Zoologischen Museums. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 88A: 1-37 [35].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, northern Australia.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central W coast, Gulf of Carp., Lower E coast, NE coast
• New Zealand
  • North Island
  • South Island

Oriental Region

• Sri Lanka

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Citations

Sabella velata.
—Willey, A. 1905. Report on the Polychaeta collected by Professor Herdman at Ceylon in 1902. Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. Suppl. 4. 243–324 pp. [307].
—Augener, H. 1914. Polychaeta II. Sedentaria. pp. 1–172 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Fischer Vol. 5 [113–115].

History of changes