Species Sabella spallanzanii (Gmelin, 1791)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tubularia spallanzanii Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910. [officially regarded by the ICZN Opinion 296 (26 Oct 1954) as the 13th edition of Systema Naturae] [3835] [although authorship of this name is often attributed to Viviani, 1805, his synonymy under Spirographis spallanzanii clearly shows that the species name was first used by Gmelin, 1791 in Tubularia; Viviani's intention was to describe a new genus based on Gmelin's species, see Knight-Jones, P. & Perkins, T.H. 1998. A revision of Sabella, Bispira and Stylomma (Polychaeta: Sabellidae). Journal of the Linnaean Society of London. Zoology 123: 385–467 [395]].

  Type data:

   Neotype BMNH ZK 1929.12.23.1, Mediterranean Sea.

  Secondary source:

   Knight-Jones, P. & Perkins, T.H. 1998. A revision of Sabella, Bispira and Stylomma (Polychaeta: Sabellidae). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 123: 385-467.
• Sabella unispira Cuvier, G. 1817. Le Règne Animal distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base … l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction a l'anatomie comparée: Les Reptiles, les Poissons, les Mollusques et les Annélides. Paris : Déterville Libraire 1-532 pp. [519].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Mediterranean Sea.
• Sabella ventilabrum Savigny, J.-C. 1820. Système des annélides, principalement de celles des côtes de l'Égypte et de la Syrie, offrant les caractères tant distinctifs que naturels des Ordres, Familles et Genres, avec la Description des Espèces. Description de l'Égypte Histoire Naturelle 1: 1-128 [81].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Malta.

 

Introduction

The European Fanworm, Sabella spallanzanii (Gmelin, 1791), is an invasive species in Australian coastal waters. Introduced from the Mediterranean, studies of museum specimens have shown that the species has been present in Australia at least since 1965, and is now present throughout southern Australia.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Introduced from the Mediterranean Sea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Distribution References

Citations

Tubularia spallanzanii.
—Bosc, L.A.G. 1802. Histoire naturelle des vers, contenant leur description et leurs moeurs, avec figures dessinées d'après nature. Paris : Déterville Vol. 1 1–324 pp. [3:81].

Spirographis spallanzanii.
—Quatrefages, A. de 1865. Histoire naturelle des Annéles marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et éephyriens. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret [427–429].
—Claparède, E. 1868. Les Annélides Chétopodes du Golfe de Naples. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 19: 313–584, 16 pls [415–421].

Sabella unispira.
—Savigny, J.-C. 1820. Système des annélides, principalement de celles des côtes de l'Égypte et de la Syrie, offrant les caractères tant distinctifs que naturels des Ordres, Familles et Genres, avec la Description des Espèces. Description de l'Egypte. Histoire Naturelle, Paris 1: 1–128 [80–81].

Sabella ventilabrum.
—Grube, A.-E. 1851. Die Families der Anneliden mit Angaba ihren Gattungen und Arten. Ein systematische Versuch. Berlin : Nicolai's schen Buchhandlung 1–164 pp. [88].

Sabella spallanzanii.
—Carey, J.M. & Watson, J.E. 1992. Benthos of the muddy bottom habitat of the Geelong Arm of Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 109: 196–202.
—Giangrande, A. & Petraroli, A. 1994. Observations on reproduction and growth of Sabella spallanzanii (Polychaeta, Sabellidae) in the Mediterranean Sea. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 162: 51–56.
—Cohen, B.F., McArthur, M.A. & Parry, G.D. 2001. Exotic Marine Pests in the Port of Melbourne, Victoria. Marine and Freshwater Resources Institute, Report No.25. 1–69 pp. [21–22]

 

General References

Murray, A. & Keable, S.J. 2013. First report of Sabella spallanzanii (Gmelin, 1791) (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Botany Bay, New South Wales, a northern range extension for the invasive species within Australia. Zootaxa 3670(3): 391-395

 

History of changes

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17-Oct-2023		08-Sep-2010	MODIFIED
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