WoRMS name details
Hydroides hexagona (Bosc, 1802)
384606 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:384606)
uncertain > taxon inquirendum (indeterminable from description, but likely a Hydroides)
Species
Serpula hexagona Bosc, 1802 · unaccepted (indeterminable from description,...)
indeterminable from description, but likely a Hydroides
Vermilia hexagona (Bosc, 1802) · unaccepted (superseded subsequent combination...)
superseded subsequent combination of taxon inquirendum
marine
recent only
(of Serpula hexagona Bosc, 1802) Bosc, L.A.G. (1802). Histoire Naturelle des Vers : contenant leur description et leurs moeurs, avec figures dessinées d'après nature. <em>Guilleminet, Paris, chez Deterville.</em> 3 vols. 324 pp. + pls. 1-10; 300 pp. + pls. 11-25; 270 pp. + pls. 26-32. 1-324., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41758184
page(s): 176, plate 7 [details]
page(s): 176, plate 7 [details]
Type locality contained in Charleston
type locality contained in Charleston [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Hydroides hexagona (Bosc, 1802). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=384606 on 2024-04-20
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original description
(of Serpula hexagona Bosc, 1802) Bosc, L.A.G. (1802). Histoire Naturelle des Vers : contenant leur description et leurs moeurs, avec figures dessinées d'après nature. <em>Guilleminet, Paris, chez Deterville.</em> 3 vols. 324 pp. + pls. 1-10; 300 pp. + pls. 11-25; 270 pp. + pls. 26-32. 1-324., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41758184
page(s): 176, plate 7 [details]
additional source Pratt, H.S. (1916). A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals, exclusive of Insects. <em>A.C. McClurg & Co., Chicago.</em> 737 pp. (copepods 339-352)., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.1245
page(s): 302; note: Probably the work in which the name Hydroides hexagona was first revived (as H. hexagonus) [details]
status source Read, Geoffrey B.; Ten Hove, Harry A.; Sun, Yanan; Kupriyanova, Elena K. (2017). Hydroides Gunnerus, 1768 (Annelida, Serpulidae) is feminine: a nomenclatural checklist of updated names. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 642: 1-52., available online at http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=10443
page(s): 22; note: authors point out the otherwise indeterminable name cannot be a nomen oblitum as it was revived and used as H. hexagonus [sic] by non-taxonomists in 20th C. [details] Available for editors
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ecology source Costello, D.P., Davidson, M.E., Eggers, A., Fox, H.M. and Henley, C. (eds) 1957. Methods for Obtaining and Handling Marine Eggs and Embryos: Lancaster, Lancaster Press, Inc..
page(s): 77; note: reporting how to culture Hydroides "hexagonus" [details]
page(s): 176, plate 7 [details]
additional source Pratt, H.S. (1916). A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals, exclusive of Insects. <em>A.C. McClurg & Co., Chicago.</em> 737 pp. (copepods 339-352)., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.1245
page(s): 302; note: Probably the work in which the name Hydroides hexagona was first revived (as H. hexagonus) [details]
status source Read, Geoffrey B.; Ten Hove, Harry A.; Sun, Yanan; Kupriyanova, Elena K. (2017). Hydroides Gunnerus, 1768 (Annelida, Serpulidae) is feminine: a nomenclatural checklist of updated names. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 642: 1-52., available online at http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=10443
page(s): 22; note: authors point out the otherwise indeterminable name cannot be a nomen oblitum as it was revived and used as H. hexagonus [sic] by non-taxonomists in 20th C. [details] Available for editors
[request] ecology source Costello, D.P., Davidson, M.E., Eggers, A., Fox, H.M. and Henley, C. (eds) 1957. Methods for Obtaining and Handling Marine Eggs and Embryos: Lancaster, Lancaster Press, Inc..
page(s): 77; note: reporting how to culture Hydroides "hexagonus" [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment Name apparently forgotten for more than a century, and afterwards used in experimental literature mainly, at first not clear which taxon was involved. Synonymised with the better known name of H. dianthus by e.g. Rioja and by Zibrowius, however, not following the ICZN, though following the intent of the Code, stabilisation of names. [details]Editor's comment Hydroides hexagona is a classic example of an indeterminable name used more in biology/ecology works (mostly with the spelling Hydroides hexagonus [sic]) than in taxonomy. Unfortunately it could be anything. However, some later usages are thought to be the same as the concept of H. dianthus. The name has been unexpectedly prominent due to its use in Costello et al (1957 and earlier) "Methods for obtaining and handling marine eggs and embryos" and earlier invertebrate handbooks (Pratt 1916) [details]
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