Fauvel1 (1914) mentions two varieties of Sabellaria spinulosa—one from Guernsey,
which he has named 8. spinulosa, var. Intoshi. It had been described without a name by
the author in February, 1914.
Crawshay found the crustacean Anthura gracilis in a tube of this species from a
depth of 42 fathoms off Plymouth, and he thought it was preying on the annelid. It
may be a commensal or an accidental visitor.
2. Sabellauia alveolata, L., 1767. Plate CXII, figs. 4, 4 «; Plate CXVII, fig. 3—
body; Plate CXVII I, fig. 2—tubes ; Plate CXXIII, figs. 3—3 e—palea*, bristles
and hooks.
Specific Characters.—Cephalic region with a less boldly bifid crown than in
S. spimdosa, but with three rows of very regularly arranged palese, which are surrounded
by a more highly developed series of filiform papilla?. The outer palese are shaped like
a cricket-bat with a long tapering handle and unequal shoulder, the tip slightly bent and
split into five or six teeth directed or curved to the front, the second the largest and
most curved. The second row has palese resembling a large, heavy foot with a slender
tapering leg. The third, or inner set, form an oblique palisade, and each has~a long
tapering terminal blade from which the shaft comes off at a large angle. Cephalic and
buccal region shorter than in 8. spinulosa and coloured brownish-purple. No long,
simple bristles running longitudinally on each side of the dorsal median line. Body of
two regions as in 8. spinulosa, besides the caudal tube; three segments in the first region,
about thirty-four bristled segments in the seeond. Length to the tip of the abdominal
appendage 2-| inches; breadth anteriorly at the peristomial lobes 6 mm. Branchise short,
thick, and greenish, first three with broader, flattened bases and more slender tips than
the rest. Bristles of the first region oar-shaped, slightly fringed, and with long shafts, a
slender, finely spinous form occurring between each. In the second region no dorsal
bristles occur. Ventral bristles of two kinds, viz. those -having oar-shaped, long tips
minutely spinous, and others with slender shafts and tapered tips bearing minute whorls
of spikes. Hooks similar to those of 8. spinulosa, with six teeth in lateral view, but the
basal end is more distinctly truncate distally. Aggregated tubes of sand-grains forming
larger masses than in 8. spinulosa.
S ynonyms.
1711. Vers a tuyau, Reaumur. Mém. Acad. R. Sc., p. 128, pi. ii, figs. 15—17.
1756. Ttibularia arenosa anglica, Ellis. Cox-all., p. 104, pi. xxxvi, figs, a—e, and figs. A, B, C.
1758. Tubipora „ Linnæus. Syst. Nat., edit, x, vol. i, p. 790.
1767. Sabella alveolata, idem. Syst. Nat., edit, xii, p. 1268.
1774. Psamatotus à tuyau conique, un peu applati, et qui a un couvercle, G-uettard. Mém., t. iii, p. 68,
pi. Ixix, fig. 2.
1777. Sabella rudis, Pennant. Brit. Zool., vol. iv, p. 147, pl. xcii, fig. 162.
1801. „ alveolata, Donovan. Bx-it. Shells, vol. iii, Tab. cxxxix.
1805. „ „ Moxxtagu. Test. Brit., p. 540.
1 ‘Ax-ch. Zool. Expér./ t. liv, p. 139.
1806. Sabella alveolata.. “Les axnphitrites,” Duinéril. Zool. axialytique, p. 296, Tab. clxxxix.
„ ,, „ Tux-ton’s Linn., p. 610.
,, „ Gmelin. Syst. Nat., i, 6, p. 3749.
,, „ Stewart. Elements, vol. ii, p. 423.
Sabellaria „ Lamarck. Anim. S. Vert., t. v, p. 352.
Sabella „ Tux-ton. Brit. Fauna, p. 136.
Hermella „ Savigny. Syst. des Annel., p. 82.
Cistenides Pallasii,-Leach. Encycl. Brit., Suppl., p. 452, pl. xxvi.
„ „ De Blainville. Diet. Sc. nat., t. lvii, p. 435, Atlas, pl. iv, fig. 1.
Sabellaria alveolata, Stax-k. Elements, vol. ii, p. 133.
Amphitnte alveolata, Cuvier. Règne Anim. (Gx-iffith’s), vol. xiii, p. 15.
„ ostreària, idem. Règxxe Anim. (Gx-iffith’s), vol. xiii, p. 15.
Sabellana alveolata. Templeton. Loud. Mag. Nat. Hist;, vol. ix, p. 234.
49. Amphitnte alveolata, Milne Edwax-ds. Illust. Ed. Cuviex-, pl. vi, fig. 2.
Sabellana „ Thompson. Rept. Brit. Assoc., p. 272.
•53. Sabellana crassissima, Chenu. Illustr. Conclx, 11e livr., ph4f, figs. 7 and 8, and pl. viii,
figs. 4 and 5.
Amphitnte plùmosa, Rathke. Rep. Zool. Ray Soc., p. 283.
Hermella ostrearia, Frey and Leuckart. Beiträge, p. 152.
,, alveolata, De Quatrefages. Ann. Sc.. nat. Zool., 3® sér., t. x, p. 14, pl. ii.
„ crassissima, idem. Ibid., 3e séx\, t. x, p. 20.
Sabellana anglica, Grube. Arch. f. Naturges., p. 45, pl. iii, fig. 11.
„ uncinata, idem. Ibid., Bd. x-iv, p. 48, figs. 6—8.
Cistenides Pallasii, De Quatrefages. Ann. Sc. xxat. Zool., t. Xiii, pp. 37, 112 et. seq.
)} // „ Landsborough. Excurs. Ax-ran, p. 49.
Sabella alveolata, Williams. Rept. Bx-it. Assoc., p. 186.
Hermella ,, Maitland. Fauna Belg., p. 208.
Sabellana anglica, Grube. Fam. Annel., pp. 84 and 139.
„ alveolata, idem. Ibid., pp. 85 and 139.
Sabella alveolata, Williams. Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, vol. xii, p. 396.
„ alveolaria, Dalyell. Pow. Cx*eat., vol. ii, p. 175, pl. xxv, figs. 1—3.
Hermella crassissima, De Quatx-efages. Annel., t. ii, p. 318.
„ alveolata, De Quatx-efages. Aixnel., t. ii, p. 314, pl. xiii, figs. 1—16.
„ Savignyi (Carus), idem. Ibid., pl. iv, fig. 1, pl. v, figs. 1—9.
Sabellana anglica, Johnston. Cat. Worms. Bx-it. Mus., pp. 248 and 345.
? Sabellaria crassissima, Johnston. Cat. Worms Brit. Mus., p. 250 (and of Pennant, Lamax*ck,
etc.).
. ;,, alveolata, Malmgren. Axxnul. Polych., p. 102, Tab. xii, fig. 70.
„ anglica, Parfitt. Cat. Annel. Devon, p. 32.
,, alveolata, Robertson, D. Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow, p. 31.
„ . anglica, Grube. Mitt. St. Vaast, etc., p. 38.
Sabella „ idem. Abhandl. Schles. Gesell., 1868—9, p. 109.
Cistenides Pallasii, Pancex*i. Atti Soc. Ital. Sc. Nat., vol. xviii, p. 529.
Sabellaria alveolata, idem. Ibid., vol. xviii, p. 529.
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1851,
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1869.
1875.
1879.
1881.
Sabellana „ Tauber. Annul. Danica, p. 126.
Hermella „ Horst. Versl. Meddel. Akad. Wetenssch., Ser. 2, vol. xvi, p. 207 and
plate.
,, - jj; Horst. Bull. Sc. Nord., 4e année, p. 1.
„ ,, Harvey Gibson. Proc. Lit. and Philos. Soc. Liverp., vol. xl, p. 156.