WoRMS taxon details
Hydroides ochotereana Rioja, 1941
328462 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:328462)
accepted
Species
Hydroides ochoterena [auct. misspelling] · unaccepted (incorrect subsequent spelling)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Rioja, Enrique. (1941). Estudios anelidológicos II. Observaciones acerca de varias especies del género <i>Hydroides</i> Gunnerus (sensu Fauvel) de las costas Mexicanas del Pacífico. <em>Anales del Instituto de Biología, México.</em> 12(1): 161-175., available online at https://anales.ib.unam.mx/index.php/anales/article/view/461/425
page(s): 164-167, plate II figs. 1-12, plate III fig. 1, plate IV fig. 16; note: Dedicated to Isaac Ochoterena but spelled 'ochotereana' [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 164-167, plate II figs. 1-12, plate III fig. 1, plate IV fig. 16; note: Dedicated to Isaac Ochoterena but spelled 'ochotereana' [details] Available for editors
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Note La Aguada and La Quebrada beaches, Acapulco,...
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Type locality La Aguada and La Quebrada beaches, Acapulco, Mexico, La Quebrada geolocation is 16.8461° -99.9156 [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Hydroides ochotereana Rioja, 1941. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=328462 on 2026-05-14
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Nomenclature
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Rioja, Enrique. (1941). Estudios anelidológicos II. Observaciones acerca de varias especies del género <i>Hydroides</i> Gunnerus (sensu Fauvel) de las costas Mexicanas del Pacífico. <em>Anales del Instituto de Biología, México.</em> 12(1): 161-175., available online at https://anales.ib.unam.mx/index.php/anales/article/view/461/425
page(s): 164-167, plate II figs. 1-12, plate III fig. 1, plate IV fig. 16; note: Dedicated to Isaac Ochoterena but spelled 'ochotereana' [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 164-167, plate II figs. 1-12, plate III fig. 1, plate IV fig. 16; note: Dedicated to Isaac Ochoterena but spelled 'ochotereana' [details] Available for editors
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redescription
Bastida-Zavala, José Rolando; ten Hove, Harry A. (2003). Revision of <i>Hydroides</i> Gunnerus, 1768 (Polychaeta: Serpulidae) from the Eastern Pacific Region and Hawaii. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 53(4): 67-110., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/505009
note: redescription and altered the spelling to 'ochoterena' [details] Available for editors [request]
note: redescription and altered the spelling to 'ochoterena' [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Kupriyanova, E.; Sun, Y.; Wong, E.; Ten Hove, H. (2023). Hydroides of the World. , available online at https://books.google.be/books?id=6krIEAAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&ots=EB8wg9X76r&dq=Kupriyanova%2C%20E.%3B%20Sun%2C%20Y.%3B%20Wong%2C%20E.%3B%20Ten%20Hove%2C%20H.%20(2023).%20Hydroides%20of%20the%20World.%20&lr&hl=nl&pg=PA199#v=onepage&q&f=false
page(s): 156, fig. 85 [details]
page(s): 156, fig. 85 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Spelling Rioja (1941: 167) stated the name for H. ochotereana was "dedicar esta especie al Maestro D. Isaac Ochoterena", but he used the spelling 'ochotereana' for the species-group name. The use of H. ochotereana has been regarded as an accidental incorrect original spelling by Bastida-Zavala & ten Hove (2003), who cited Art 32.5 as justification for using 'ochoterena', although that would be an unchanged noun in apposition, rather than a genitive. Instead, we cannot reject the likelihood that Rioja had intentionally used the altered '-ana' ending (after all he used it five times) in trying to create an adjectival form of Ochotorena. Perhaps his adaption was intended to be a form of the suffix '-ianus' -iana' frequently used for adjectival latinisation of nouns based on personal and geographic names, and perhaps also to avoid the name looking like an authorship (ICZN recommendation 31A). As it was the author who was responsible for an incorrect latinisation (Art. 32.5.1) his original spelling is not corrected (also see Welter-Shultes, 2013:77, also preferable considering ICZN 31a). [details]Type locality La Aguada and La Quebrada beaches, Acapulco, Mexico, La Quebrada geolocation is 16.8461° -99.9156 [details]
