WoRMS name details
Hydroides (Eucarphus) Mörch, 1863
326105 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:326105)
unaccepted (superseded original subgenus)
Subgenus
- Species Hydroides (Eucarphus) benzoni Mörch, 1863 accepted as Hydroides dirampha Mörch, 1863 (subjective synonym)
- Species Hydroides (Eucarphus) crucigera Mörch, 1863 [original] accepted as Hydroides crucigera Mörch, 1863 (superseded original rank as subgenus)
- Species Hydroides (Eucarphus) cumingii Mörch, 1863 accepted as Hydroides dirampha Mörch, 1863 (subjective synonym)
- Species Hydroides (Eucarphus) dirampha Mörch, 1863 [original] accepted as Hydroides dirampha Mörch, 1863 (superseded original combination)
- Species Hydroides (Eucarphus) infundibulum (Delle Chiaje, 1822) accepted as Vermiliopsis labiata (O. G. Costa, 1861) (superseded recombination of subjective synonym)
- Species Hydroides (Eucarphus) microtis Mörch, 1863 accepted as Hydroides microtis Mörch, 1863 (superseded original combination)
- Species Hydroides (Eucarphus) sanctaecrucis Krøyer in Mörch, 1863 accepted as Hydroides sanctaecrucis Krøyer in Mörch, 1863 (superseded original rank (disused subgenus))
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Mörch [Mørch], 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
page(s): 378; note: as a subgenus for six Hydroides, beginning with H. (E.) crucigera [details]
page(s): 378; note: as a subgenus for six Hydroides, beginning with H. (E.) crucigera [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Hydroides (Eucarphus) Mörch, 1863. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=326105 on 2025-11-10
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Nomenclature
original description
Mörch [Mørch], 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
page(s): 378; note: as a subgenus for six Hydroides, beginning with H. (E.) crucigera [details]
page(s): 378; note: as a subgenus for six Hydroides, beginning with H. (E.) crucigera [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Pixell, Helen L. M. (1913). Polychaeta of the Indian Ocean, together with some species from the Cape Verde Islands. The Serpulidae, with a classification of the genera Hydroides and Eupomatus. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.</em> (Series 2) 16: 69-92., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25257250
note: Eucarphus treated as a junior synonym of Hydroides [details]
note: Eucarphus treated as a junior synonym of Hydroides [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Author: "Operculum petiolatum, margine dentato. superne paleis in infundibulum dispositis ; paleæ basi spathulatæ, connatæ, superne liberæ, extremitate utrinque aurita , interdum aculeo intermedio terminali, unde uti cruciati" from which the essence is that operculum spines have lateral processes [details]Synonymy erected as a subgenus of Hydroides for H. crucigera, H. dirampha, H. cumingii, H. sanctaecrucis, H. microtis, and H. benzoni, but not distinct from the nominal genus according to Pixell (1913), a view supported by Bastida-Zavala & ten Hove (2002) [details]
