Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Pillai, Telesphore Gottfried. (1960). Some marine and brackish-water serpulid Polychaeta from Ceylon, including new genera and species. <em>Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences).</em> 3(1): 1-40, plates 1-2. page(s): 14-15, fig. 5F-I; note: original correctly as Hydroides inornata (feminine suffix) [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy
Ishaq, S., Mustaquim, J. 1996. Polychaetous annelids (order Sabellida) from the Karachi coast, Pakistan. Pakistan J. Mar. Sci. 5(2): 161-197. note: regarded to be a synonym of Hydroides operculata by Ishaq & Mustaquim [details]
status source
Sun, Yanan; Al-Kandari, Manal; Kubal, Priti; Walmiki, Nitin; Kupriyanova, Elena K. (2017). Cutting a Gordian knot of tubeworms with DNA data: the story of the Hydroides operculata-complex (Annelida, Serpulidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4323(1): 39-48., available online at https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4323.1.3 note: Sun et al 2017 re-instated this taxon to full species on the basis of a comparative DNA study [details] Available for editors [request]
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Etymology Not stated, but for H. inornata it is likely that the Latin inornatus ‘unadorned’ is referring to the verticil spines without side spinules [details]
Taxonomy Confused synonymy, the questionable record under this name from Marseille by Zibrowius 1968 = H. niger; Amoureux et al 1978 from the Red Sea = H. minax [details]
Type locality shore at Maha Alamba (not found, perhaps disused), “about a mile” from the Negombo Lagoon entrance (an aquatic research institute is nearby), north of Colombo, west coast of Sri Lanka. [details]
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