WoRMS taxon details
Hydroides recurvispina Rioja, 1941
328467 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:328467)
accepted
Species
Eupomatus recurvispina (Rioja, 1941) · unaccepted (superseded recombination)
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): 167-169, text-figs. 1a, b, c, plate I figs. 11-15 [details] Available for editors
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Note La Aguada, Acapulco, Mexico, 16.8398°,...
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Type locality La Aguada, Acapulco, Mexico, 16.8398°, -99.9009° (map estimate) [details]
Etymology Not stated, but the name for H. recurvispina is likely referring to the verticil spines which are sharply curving backwards...
Etymology Not stated, but the name for H. recurvispina is likely referring to the verticil spines which are sharply curving backwards on themselves. Thus Latin recurvus ‘backward curved’ combined with spina ‘thorn’. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Hydroides recurvispina Rioja, 1941. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=328467 on 2026-04-20
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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): 167-169, text-figs. 1a, b, c, plate I figs. 11-15 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 167-169, text-figs. 1a, b, c, plate I figs. 11-15 [details] Available for editors
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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
page(s): 99; note: as H. recurvispina [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 99; note: as H. recurvispina [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Rioja, Enrique. (1942). Estudios anelidológicos. IV. Observaciones sobre especies de serpúlidos de las costas del Pacífico de México, con descripción de una especie nueva del género <i>Hydroides</i>. <em>Anales del Instituto de Biología, México.</em> 13(1): 125-135., available online at https://anales.ib.unam.mx/index.php/anales/article/view/527/488
page(s): 125-126, figs. 1-6 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Kupriyanova, E.; Sun, Y.; Wong, E.; Ten Hove, H. (2023). Hydroides of the World. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/9781486311590
page(s): 171, fig. 97 [details]
page(s): 125-126, figs. 1-6 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Kupriyanova, E.; Sun, Y.; Wong, E.; Ten Hove, H. (2023). Hydroides of the World. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/9781486311590
page(s): 171, fig. 97 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Etymology Not stated, but the name for H. recurvispina is likely referring to the verticil spines which are sharply curving backwards on themselves. Thus Latin recurvus ‘backward curved’ combined with spina ‘thorn’. [details]Type locality La Aguada, Acapulco, Mexico, 16.8398°, -99.9009° (map estimate) [details]
