WoRMS taxon details
Hydroides helmata (Iroso, 1921)
131004 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131004)
accepted
Species
Eupomatus helmatus Iroso, 1921 · unaccepted (superseded original combination)
marine
(of Eupomatus helmatus Iroso, 1921) Iroso, Isabella. (1921). Revisione dei Serpulidi e Sabellidi del Golfo di Napoli. <em>Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli.</em> 3: 47-91, plates 3-4. [details] 
Type locality contained in Naples Gulf
type locality contained in Naples Gulf [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Hydroides helmata (Iroso, 1921). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131004 on 2025-11-14
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Eupomatus helmatus Iroso, 1921) Iroso, Isabella. (1921). Revisione dei Serpulidi e Sabellidi del Golfo di Napoli. <em>Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli.</em> 3: 47-91, plates 3-4. [details]
Taxonomy
status source
Zibrowius, H. (1971). Les espèces méditerranéennes du genre <i>Hydroides</i> (Polychaeta Serpulidae). Remarques sur le prétendu polymorphisme de <i>Hydroides uncinata</i>. <em>Tethys.</em> 2: 691-746.
page(s): 713-714; note: uses the form 'helmata' as if helmatus is an adjective. [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 713-714; note: uses the form 'helmata' as if helmatus is an adjective. [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Bianchi, Carlo Nike. (1981). Policheti Serpuloidei. Guide per il riconoscimento delle specie animali delle acque lagunari e costiere italiane. <em>Guide per il riconoscimento delle specie animali delle acque lagunari e costiere italiane AQ/1/96.</em> 5: 1-187. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Read, Geoffrey B.; Ten Hove, Harry A.; Sun, Yanan; Kupriyanova, Elena K. (2017). Hydroides Gunnerus, 1768 (Annelida, Serpulidae) is feminine: a nomenclatural checklist of updated names. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 642: 1-52., available online at http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=10443
page(s): 21; note: authors point out that H. helmata is junior to Eupomatus affinis Marion, 1875, which is not a nomen oblitum and thus cannot be placed in junior synonymy with it [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Kupriyanova, E.; Sun, Y.; Wong, E.; Ten Hove, H. (2023). Hydroides of the World. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/9781486311590
page(s): 119, fig. 58 [details]
additional source Bianchi, Carlo Nike. (1981). Policheti Serpuloidei. Guide per il riconoscimento delle specie animali delle acque lagunari e costiere italiane. <em>Guide per il riconoscimento delle specie animali delle acque lagunari e costiere italiane AQ/1/96.</em> 5: 1-187. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Read, Geoffrey B.; Ten Hove, Harry A.; Sun, Yanan; Kupriyanova, Elena K. (2017). Hydroides Gunnerus, 1768 (Annelida, Serpulidae) is feminine: a nomenclatural checklist of updated names. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 642: 1-52., available online at http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=10443
page(s): 21; note: authors point out that H. helmata is junior to Eupomatus affinis Marion, 1875, which is not a nomen oblitum and thus cannot be placed in junior synonymy with it [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Kupriyanova, E.; Sun, Y.; Wong, E.; Ten Hove, H. (2023). Hydroides of the World. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/9781486311590
page(s): 119, fig. 58 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Grammatical gender Zibrowius (1971) used 'helmata' for gender agreement, as Iroso evidently intended her invention of 'helmatus' as an masculine Latin adjective, helm (OF noun) + atus = helm-like. [details]
