WoRMS name details
Hydroides monoceros (Gravier, 1906)
209950 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:209950)
unaccepted (subsequent combination of subjective synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Serpula (Hydroides) monoceros Gravier, 1906) Gravier, C. (1906). Sur les Annélides Polychètes de la Mer Rouge (Serpulides). <em>Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.</em> 12: 110-115., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/p.328587
page(s): 110-111; note: no figures [details]
page(s): 110-111; note: no figures [details]
Distribution Distribution: Gambier Islands, India, Red Sea and Zanzibar (Fauvel,1953); tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958).
Distribution Distribution: Gambier Islands, India, Red Sea and Zanzibar (Fauvel,1953); tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Hydroides monoceros (Gravier, 1906). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=209950 on 2026-06-17
Date
action
by
2000-08-02 12:27:23Z
created
Vermaercke, Sigrid
2000-09-13 14:56:03Z
changed
Garcia, Maria
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Serpula (Hydroides) monoceros Gravier, 1906) Gravier, C. (1906). Sur les Annélides Polychètes de la Mer Rouge (Serpulides). <em>Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.</em> 12: 110-115., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/p.328587
page(s): 110-111; note: no figures [details]
page(s): 110-111; note: no figures [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Imajima, Minoru 1976. Serpulid polychaetes from Tanega-shima, southwest Japan. Memoirs of the National Science Museum, Tokyo 9: 123-143.
page(s): 129 [details]
status source 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): 112; note: discusses whether H. minax and minoceros are distinct and maintains separation. [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 129 [details]
status source 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): 112; note: discusses whether H. minax and minoceros are distinct and maintains separation. [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Fauvel, P. (1953). The fauna of India including Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma and Malaya : Annelida, Polychaeta. The Indian Press, Ltd, Allahabad. xii and 507 p., available online at http://archive.org/details/FBIPolychaeta [details]
additional source 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]
additional source 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
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Synonymy Hartman Catalogue tentatively suggested H. minax and H. monoceros were the same. Pillai (1971: 112) maintained the separation, Gibbs (1971: 202) regarded H. monoceros as a closely allied species, and Imajima (1976: 129) synonymized them, although without comment. [details]Unreviewed
Distribution Distribution: Gambier Islands, India, Red Sea and Zanzibar (Fauvel,1953); tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). [details]
