Species Hydroides elegans (Haswell, 1883)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eupomatus elegans Haswell, W.A. 1883. On some new Australian tubicolous annelids. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 7: 633-638 [633].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Port Jackson, NSW
  Comment: Haswell’s collections were in the Macleay Museum of the University of Sydney but unfortunately many specimens were lost before they were transferred to the Australian Museum. Haswell did not designate types.
• Hydroides spinalateralis Straughan, D. 1967. Marine Serpulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) of eastern Queensland and New South Wales. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 201-261 [230].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM W3997, Shoal Point, Mackay, Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Mediterranean and Caribbean Seas

Introduced from One of the most common fouling organisms in tropical and subtropical ports. As it was described from Sydney it is possible that it is native to Australia and has spread elsewhere, or alternatively was introduced to Australia prior to 1883..

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

One of the most common fouling organisms in (sub)tropical harbours.

 

Citations

Hydroides elegans.
—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 [237–238, fig. 3].
—Imajima, M. 1977. Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) collected around Chichi-jima (Ogasawara Islands). Memoirs of the National Science Museum (Tokyo) 10: 89–111 [94–95].
—Imajima, M. 1979. Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) collected around Cape Shionomisaki, Kii Peninsula. Memoirs of the National Science Museum (Tokyo) 12: 160–183 [169].
—Australian Museum Business Services 2002. Port Survey for Introduced Marine Species — Sydney Harbour. Final Report for Sydney Ports Corporation. 1–146 pp. [20-21]

Misidentifications

as Hydroides norvegica.
—Dew, B. 1958. Variations in the secondary operculum of the Australian representatives of the polychaete worm Hydroides norvegica Gunnerus and notes on a polychaete worm recovered from the aquarium at Taronga Zoological Park. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1956–57: 52–57.
—Wisely, B. 1958. The development and settling of a serpulid worm Hydroides norvegica Gunnerus (Polychaeta). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 9: 351–361.
—Wisely, B. 1959. Factors influencing the settling of the prinicipal marine fouling organisms in Sydney Harbour. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 10: 30–44.
—Dew, B. 1959. Serpulidae (Polychaeta) from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 25: 19–56 [25, fig. 4].
—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.
—Straughan, D. 1967. Marine Serpulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) of eastern Queensland and New South Wales. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 201–261 [219–220].

as Hydroides multispinosa.
—Augener, H. 1914. Polychaeta II. Sedentaria. pp. 1–172 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Fischer Vol. 5 [139–142].

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023	SERPULIDAE	14-Sep-2015	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)