WoRMS name details
original description
Pillai, T. Gottfried. (1971). Studies on a collection of marine and brackish-water polychaete annelids of the family Serpulidae from Ceylon. <em>Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences).</em> 9(2): 88-130. page(s): 102-104, fig. 4E-G [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]
status source
ten Hove, H.A. & Ben-Eliahu, M. Nechama. (2005). On the identity of Hydroides priscus Pillai, 1971 - Taxonomic confusion due to ontogeny in some serpulid genera (Annelida: Polychaeta: Serpulidae). <em>Senckenbergiana biologica.</em> 85(2):127-145. note: as H. priscus [details]
Syntype BMNH 1968: 143/144, geounit Sri Lanka [details]
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Status Hydroides prisca is a juvenile Hydroides with a developing operculum, not a valid new taxon (fide ten Hove & Ben-Eliahu, 2005). It cannot be assigned to a known species. [details]
Type locality Panadura River mouth, Panadura, western Sri Lanka coast, 6.715° 79.8992° [details]
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