North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS name details

Spirographis Viviani, 1805

Spirographis spallanzanii

AphiaID

155391 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:155391)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (subjective synonym)

Accepted name

Sabella Linnaeus, 1767

Rank

Genus

Parent

Sabellinae Chamberlin, 1919

Original name

Spirographis Viviani, 1805

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Species Spirographis spallanzanii (Gmelin, 1791) accepted as Sabella spallanzanii (Gmelin, 1791) (genus is a subjective synonym of Sabella)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Viviani, Dominico. (1805). Phosphorescentia maris quatuordecim lucescentium animaliculorum novis speciebus illustrata [Marine phosphorescence of ??fourteen luminous animals illustrated by new species]. [booklet]. 1-17, plates 1-5, printed by Joannis Giossi, of Genuae., available online at https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_nD4Kwfccn8kC/mode/2up
page(s): 14-17, plate 4 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Spirographis Viviani, 1805. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=155391 on 2026-06-11

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Spirographis Viviani, 1805. Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=155391 on 2026-06-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-04-27 08:17:47Z

created

Appeltans, Ward

2008-03-26 11:36:43Z

changed

Fauchald, Kristian

2010-03-25 02:26:11Z

changed

Read, Geoffrey

2010-09-08 06:14:53Z

changed

Read, Geoffrey

2024-08-07 23:15:50Z

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Read, Geoffrey

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original description Viviani, Dominico. (1805). Phosphorescentia maris quatuordecim lucescentium animaliculorum novis speciebus illustrata [Marine phosphorescence of ??fourteen luminous animals illustrated by new species]. [booklet]. 1-17, plates 1-5, printed by Joannis Giossi, of Genuae., available online at https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_nD4Kwfccn8kC/mode/2up
page(s): 14-17, plate 4 [details]

source of synonymy Knight-Jones, Phyllis; Perkins, Thomas H. (1998). A revision of Sabella, Bispira and Stylomma (Polychaeta: Sabellidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London. 123: 385-467., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1998.tb01370.x [details] Available for editors