WoRMS name details
original description
Philippi, A. (1844). Einige Bemerkungen über die Gattung Serpula, nebst Aufzählung der von mir im Mittelmeer mit dem Thier beobachteten Arten. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin.</em> 10(1): 186-198, plate 6., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13704089 page(s): 195 [details]
source of synonymy
Pillai, T. Gottfried 1972. A review and revision of the systematics of the genera Hydroides and Eupomatus together with an account of their phylogeny and zoogeography. Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences) 10(1): 7-31. page(s): 29; note: decided the lack of lateral spines which characterized Eupomatus is of species-level significance only within Hydroides [details]
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Taxonomy Eupomatus also has been used as subgenus of Hydroides. Pillai (1972 and earlier) concluded the character state of absence of lateral verticil spines which characterized Eupomatus as a separate genus is of species-level value only within Hydroides [details]
Type species Philippi named Eupomatus uncinatus and E. pectinatus. At least by the date of Hartman catalogue (1959) E. uncinatus was regarded as the type species and E. pectinatus was treated as a synonym of Hydroides norvegica, the type of Hydroides [details]
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