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‖ sabella Zool.|səˈbɛlə|
[mod.L. (Gmelin Linnæus Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 1788), perh. f. sabulum sand.]
A tubicolous annelid of the family Sabellidæ.
a1851J. G. Dalyell Powers Creator (1853) II. 175 Different species or varieties of the Sabella are found on the shores and in the seas of Scotland. Ibid., Sabella alveolaria.—The Honeycomb Sabella. 1851Medlock tr. Schoedler's Bk. Nature ii. 530 There are besides, the Sabellas, or pencil, fan, and comb-worms (Sabella). 1863Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. III. 699 We now come to another pretty tube-inhabiting annelid, which is called Sabella, because it lives in the sand and forms its tube of that substance. Several species of Sabella are found on the British coasts, the most common of which is the Shore Sabella (Sabella alveolaria). |