WoRMS name details
original description
Mörch, O. A. L. (1863). Revisio critica Serpulidarum. Et Bidrag til Rørormenes Naturhistorie. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift København.</em> Ser. 3, 1: 347-470, pl. 11 [also issued as a separate, 1–124, pl. 11]., available online at http://www.archive.org/details/naturhistoriskti01copeuoft [details]
source of synonymy
Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628. [details] Available for editors [request]
redescription
Bastida-Zavala, Jose Rolando and ten Hove, Harry A. 2002. Revision of Hydroides Gunnerus, 1768 (Polychaeta: Serpulidae) from the Western Atlantic Region. Beaufortia, 52(9): 103-178. [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Not stated, but H. sanctaecrucis is clearly named after its type locality, Saint Croix Island, and the syntypes at the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen are labelled "Kr. St.Croix, legit Oerstedt". The genitive of the feminine Latin noun crux (cross) is crucis. [details]
Type locality Saint Croix, Virgin Islands, Caribbean Sea [details]
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