Species Hydroides albiceps (Grube, 1870)

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• Serpula (Eupomatus) albiceps Grube, A.-E. 1870. Beschreibungen neuer order weniger bekannter von Hrn. Ehrenberg gesammelter Anneliden des rothen Meeres. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1870: 484-521 [520-521].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB 533 (species descibed by Ehrenberg and Grube, published in Grube, 1869), Red Sea
  Comment: species descibed by Ehrenberg and Grube, published in Grube, 1869.
• Serpula (Hydroides) multispinosa ternatensis Fischli, H. 1903. Polychaeten von Ternate. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 25: 90-136 [130] [as Serpula (Hydroides) multispinosa var. terntensis].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Ternate, Indian Ocean.
• Hydroides spiratubus Pillai, G. 2009. Descriptions of new serpulid polychaetes from the Kimberleys of Australia and discussion of Australian and Indo-West Pacific species of Spirobranchus and superficially similar taxa. Records of the Australian Museum 61(2): 93-199 [128-131].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM W21392, east side of Fenelon Island, WA, 30 [15°13'S, 124°31'E].
  Paratype(s) AM W202955 1 specimen, east of Montalivet Island, WA, 6 [15°06',S 125°18'E].

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Red Sea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Great Barrier Reef, NE coast
• Palau
• Solomon Islands
• Western Samoa

Neotropical Region

• Panama

Oriental Region

• India
• Indonesia
  • Java
• Sri Lanka

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

More common on shores of mainland than on reef proper, intertidal down to 180 m depth.

 

Citations

Eupomatus albiceps.
—Hartman, O. 1954. Marine annelids from the northern Marshall islands. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 260: 615–644 [641].
—Reish, D.J. 1968. Polychaetous annelids of the Marshall Islands. Pacific Science 22(2): 208–231 [228].

Hydroides albiceps.
—Pillai, T.G. 1960. Some marine and brackish-water serpulid polychaetes from Ceylon, including new genera and species. Ceylon Journal of Science 3: 1–40 [12, fig. 4].
—Pillai, T.G. 1971. Studies on a collection of marine and brackish-water polychaete annelids of the family Serpulidae from Ceylon. Ceylon Journal of Science, Biological Sciences 9: 88–130 [112–113].
—Straughan, D. 1967. Marine Serpulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) of eastern Queensland and New South Wales. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 201–261 [220, fig. 6].
—Zibrowius, H. 1971. Les espèces mediterraéennes du genre Hydroides (Polychaeta Serpulidae). Remarques sur le prétendu polymorphisme de Hydroides uncinata. Tethys 2: 691–745 [714].
—Imajima, M. 1976. Serpulid polychaetes from Tanega-shima, southwest Japan. Memoirs of the National Science Museum (Tokyo) 9: 123–143 [133–135, fig. 8].
—Imajima, M. 1976. Serpulinae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Japan. I. The Genus Hydroides. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo A, Zool. 2(4): 229–248 [234–235].
—Imajima, M 1978. Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) collected around Nii-jima and O-shima, Izu Island. Memoirs of the National Science Museum (Tokyo) 11: 49–72 [53–54].
—Imajima, M. 1979. Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) collected around Cape Shionomisaki, Kii Peninsula. Memoirs of the National Science Museum (Tokyo) 12: 160–183 [168].
—Imajima, M. 1982. Serpulinae (Polychaetous Annelids) from the Palau and Yap Islands, Micronesia. Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology 23: 37–55 [44].
—Imajima, M. & ten Hove, H.A. 1984. Serpulinae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Truk, Ponape and Majuro Islands, with some other new Indo-Pacific records. Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology 27: 35–66 [43–44].
—Imajima, M. & ten Hove, H.A. 1986. Serpulinae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Nauru, the Gilbert Islands (Kiribati) and the Solomon Islands. Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology 32: 1–16 [5].

Misidentifications

as Hydroides minax.
—Gibbs, P.E. 1971. The Polychaete fauna of the Solomon Islands. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Zoology) 21(5): 101–211.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023	Hydroides Gunnerus, 1768	13-Jan-2017	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023	SERPULIDAE	09-Sep-2015	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023	SERPULIDAE	10-Jul-2014	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		15-Feb-2011	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		03-Nov-2010	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		09-Aug-2010	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)