Sabellaria Lamarck, 1812

Nishi, Eijiroh, Bailey-Brock, Julie Helen, Santos, Andre Souza Dos, Tachikawa, Hiroyuki & Kupriyanova, Elena K., 2010, Sabellaria isumiensis n. sp. (Annelida: Polychaeta: Sabellariidae) from shallow waters off Onjuku, Boso Peninsula, Japan, and re-descriptions of three Indo-West Pacific sabellariid species, Zootaxa 2680, pp. 1-25 : 7

Genus Sabellaria Lamarck, 1812

Diagnosis. Three parathoracic segments. Opercular crown and stalk completely divided at anterior midline into two symmetrical lobes. Opercular paleae on each lobe arranged in 3 rows made of three or four kinds of paleae. Outer and inner row of paleae of a single kind, and middle row of paleae made either of a single kind of paleae or of two kinds of paleae, long and short. Nuchal spines present or absent. Dorsal branchiae present in parathoracic and abdominal segments.