WoRMS taxon details
Hydroides floridana (Bush, 1910)
369234 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:369234)
accepted
Species
Eupomatus decorus Treadwell, 1931 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Eupomatus floridanus Bush, 1910 · unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Eupomatus uncinatus non Philippi sensu Ehlers, 1887 · unaccepted (given new name Hydroides...)
given new name Hydroides floridanus by Bush
Hydroides decorus (Treadwell, 1931) · unaccepted (subsequent combination of...)
subsequent combination of subjective synonym
Hydroides rostrata Iroso, 1921 [original] · unaccepted (objective synonym of H. floridana)
marine
(of Eupomatus floridanus Bush, 1910) Bush, Katharine J. (1910). Description of new serpulids from Bermuda with notes on known forms from adjacent regions. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.</em> 62: 490-501, plate 36 (separate from text)., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26294605
page(s): 498 [no figures]; note: new name for Eupomatus uncinatus sensu Ehlers, 1887 [details]
page(s): 498 [no figures]; note: new name for Eupomatus uncinatus sensu Ehlers, 1887 [details]
Type locality contained in South Florida
type locality contained in South Florida [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Hydroides floridana (Bush, 1910). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=369234 on 2026-03-01
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Eupomatus decorus Treadwell, 1931) Treadwell, Aaron L. (1931). Three new species of polychaetous annelids in the collections of the United States National Museum. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 80(2902): 1-5., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.80-2902.1 [details] Available for editors 
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original description (of Eupomatus floridanus Bush, 1910) Bush, Katharine J. (1910). Description of new serpulids from Bermuda with notes on known forms from adjacent regions. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.</em> 62: 490-501, plate 36 (separate from text)., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26294605
page(s): 498 [no figures]; note: new name for Eupomatus uncinatus sensu Ehlers, 1887 [details]
original description (of Eupomatus uncinatus non Philippi sensu Ehlers, 1887) Ehlers, E. (1887). Reports on the results of dredging, under the direction of L. F. Pourtalès, during the years 1868-1870, and of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78), and in the Caribbean Sea (1878-79), in the U.S. Coast Survey steamer "Blake", Lieut-Com. C. D. Sigsbee, U.S.N. and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXXI. Report on the Annelids. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 15: vi & 335 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30734338
page(s): 285-286, plate 58 figs. 6-11 [details]
original description (of Hydroides rostrata Iroso, 1921 [original]) Iroso, Isabella. (1921). Revisione dei Serpulidi e Sabellidi del Golfo di Napoli. <em>Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli.</em> 3: 47-91, plates 3-4.
page(s): 53; note: informally identifying Eupomatus uncinatus sensu Ehlers as a separate species, Hydroides rostrata [details]
[request]original description (of Eupomatus floridanus Bush, 1910) Bush, Katharine J. (1910). Description of new serpulids from Bermuda with notes on known forms from adjacent regions. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.</em> 62: 490-501, plate 36 (separate from text)., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26294605
page(s): 498 [no figures]; note: new name for Eupomatus uncinatus sensu Ehlers, 1887 [details]
original description (of Eupomatus uncinatus non Philippi sensu Ehlers, 1887) Ehlers, E. (1887). Reports on the results of dredging, under the direction of L. F. Pourtalès, during the years 1868-1870, and of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78), and in the Caribbean Sea (1878-79), in the U.S. Coast Survey steamer "Blake", Lieut-Com. C. D. Sigsbee, U.S.N. and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXXI. Report on the Annelids. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 15: vi & 335 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30734338
page(s): 285-286, plate 58 figs. 6-11 [details]
original description (of Hydroides rostrata Iroso, 1921 [original]) Iroso, Isabella. (1921). Revisione dei Serpulidi e Sabellidi del Golfo di Napoli. <em>Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli.</em> 3: 47-91, plates 3-4.
page(s): 53; note: informally identifying Eupomatus uncinatus sensu Ehlers as a separate species, Hydroides rostrata [details]
Taxonomy
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.
page(s): 118; note: as floridanus [details]
page(s): 118; note: as floridanus [details]
Other
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): 108-110, fig. 49 [details]
page(s): 108-110, fig. 49 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Grammatical gender mandatory change to floridana from original floridanus, as regarded as intended to be an adjectival formulation (widely used in past as such). [details]Synonymy confused synonymy, see Bastida-Zavala & ten Hove 2002, excluding part of H. floridanus non Bush sensu Augener, 1934 and including H. uncinatus non Philippi sensu Day, 1973 [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Eupomatus decorus Treadwell, 1931)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (1 record) (from synonym Eupomatus decorus Treadwell, 1931)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (1 record)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (Holotype USNM 19621) (from synonym Eupomatus decorus Treadwell, 1931)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (1 record) (from synonym Eupomatus decorus Treadwell, 1931)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (1 record)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (Holotype USNM 19621) (from synonym Eupomatus decorus Treadwell, 1931)
