Malmgren, 1867
Description:
These worms occupy thin-walled tubes of mucoprotein with or without silt, sand or fine shell, usually flexible. Operculum absent. Prostomium fused to peristomium, with a crown of pinnate radioles anteriorly; some species with a few apinnate tentacular filaments ventrally.
Peristomium forming a ring with an anterior collar.
First segment with notopodial chaetae only. No thoracic membrane.
Parapodia without dorsal and ventral cirri. Thoracic notopodia cylindrical or tapering and thoracic neuropodia tori. In the abdomen the situation is reversed. No gills. Chaetae variously ornamented capillaries, dentate hooks without hoods and uncini.
Pygidium without cirri (Sabellidae).
Found on all types of substratum, e.g. rock, mud, sand, algal holdfasts and encrusting fauna (but never algal fronds) according to species.
After: Fauchald and Rouse, 1997 and Hayward and Ryland, 1990.
For identification to species level, jump to the Picture key: Page 261: Sabellidae
The following taxa of this family occur in the region:
Genus Amphiglena
Genus Bispira
Genus Branchiomma
Genus Chone
Genus Euchone
Genus Fabricia
Genus Fabriciola
Genus Jasmineira
Genus Laonome
Genus Manayunkia
Genus Myxicola
Genus Notaulax
Genus Potamilla
Genus Pseudopotamilla
Genus Sabella
Subfamily Sabellinae
Amphiglena mediterranea
Bispira crassicornis
Bispira volutacornis
Branchiomma bombyx
Branchiomma inconspicua
Chone duneri
Chone fauveli
Chone filicaudata
Chone longocirrata
Euchone analis
Euchone papillosa
Euchone rubrocincta
Fabricia stellaris
Fabriciola baltica
Jasmineira candela
Jasmineira elegans
Laonome kroeyeri
Manayunkia aestuarina
Myxicola infundibulum
Notaulax rectangulata
Potamilla neglecta
Potamilla torelli
Pseudopotamilla reniformis
Sabella pavonina