Hydroides
| Hydroides tubeworm | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Class: | Polychaeta |
| Order: | Sabellida |
| Family: | Serpulidae |
| Subfamily: | |
| Genus: | Hydroides Gunnerus, 1768[1][2] |
Hydroides is a genus of tube-forming serpulid worms found on submerged saltwater rocks, shells, and boats in many coastal areas around the world.
Species[]
It contains the following species:
- (Bush, 1910)
- (Rioja, 1863)
- (Moerch, 1863)
- (Verrill, 1873)
- (Mörch, 1863)
- Hydroides elegans (Haswell, 1883)
- Hydroides ezoensis (Okuda, 1934)
- (Sun & Yang, 2000)
- (Kupriyanova, Sun, ten Hove, Wong & Rouse, 2015)
- (Chen & Wu, 1980)
- (Mörch, 1863)
- Hydroides norvegica (Gunnerus, 1768)
- (Treadwell, 1902)
- (Benedict, 1887)
- (Krøyer in Mörch, 1863)
- (Chen & Wu, 1978)
Ecology[]
Parasites of Hydroides include sea snails from the genus Fargoa.[3]
References[]
- ^ "Hydroides". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- ^ Gunnerus J. E. (1768). K. Norske Vid. Selsk. Skrifter 4: 52.
- ^ Schander C., Van Aartsen J. J. & Corgan J. X. (1999). "Families and genera of the Pyramidelloidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda)". Bollettino Malacologico. 34 (9–12): 145–166.
External links[]
- A new introduced fouling organism in Sydney Harbour
- MBL Marine Organisms Database page
- Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)-U.K. on H. ezoensis
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- Serpulidae
- Polychaete genera
- Taxa named by Johan Ernst Gunnerus
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