Species Hydroides malleolaspina Straughan, 1967

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hydroides malleolaspina Straughan, D. 1967. Marine Serpulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) of eastern Queensland and New South Wales. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 201-261 [222-224].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM W3999, Pialba, Queensland [25°16'44"S, 152°50'32"E].
• Hydroides trihamulatus 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 [131-133].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM W21412 4 specimens, sand cay on Port George IV, Kimberleys, WA [15°20'S, 124°39'E]; AM W202944 5 specimens, sand cay on Port George IV, Kimberleys, WA [15°20'S, 124°39'E].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sun, Y., Wong, E., ten Hove, H.A., Hutchings, P.A., Williamson, J.E. & Kupriyanova, E.K. 2015. Revision of the genus Hydroides (Annelida: Serpulidae) from Australia. Zootaxa 4009: 1-99 [53]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Hydroides mallaleospinus Straughan, 1967. —
  Hove, H.A. ten & Kupriyanova, E.K. 2009. Taxonomy of Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta): the state of affairs. Zootaxa 2036: 1-126 [53]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Citations

Hydroides malleolaspinus
Murray, A., Hutchings, P. & Pillai, T.G. 2010. Note on Hydroides malleolaspinus from the Kimberleys of
Western Australia (Polychaeta: Serpulidae). Records of the Australian Museum 62: 393–394.

Citations

Hydroides malleolaspina.
—Straughan, D. 1967. Some Serpulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Heron Island, Queensland. Papers from the Heron Island Research Station, University of Queensland 1: 27–45 [33].

Citations

Hydroides trihamulatus-
Pillai (2009: 131–134) described a new species for which no types were designated. Because of this error the name is unavailable. Murray et al. 2010, expanded the description of Hydroides malleolaspinus which now includes Hydroides trihamulatus. Material of Hydroides trihamulatus examined: AM W202944 (5 specimens, all incomplete and only one with operculum present, removed from tubes, one posterior end also in vial), from Kimberley area, Western Australia, from sand cay on Port George IV, 15°20'S 124°39'E. AM W21412 (5 specimens, of which two are anterior ends only and lack tubes, one is juvenile, incomplete posteriorly but possesses a tube, and one consists of radiolar crown of one side only), from Kimberley area, Western Australia, from sand cay on Port George IV, 15°20'S 124°39'E. AM W202939 (1 radiolar crown from one side only, plus operculum), from sand cay on Port George IV, 15°20'S 124°39'E. AM W202943 (1 adult specimen lacking tube), from reef north west of Buffon Island, 14°55'S 124°48'E. AM W21469, (1 juvenile), from south west corner of Lucas Island, Kimberleys, Western Australia, 15°13'S 124°31'E, 30 m.

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