WoRMS name details
Hydroides prisca Pillai, 1971
328465 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:328465)
uncertain > nomen dubium (named for a developmental operculum morph)
Species
Hydroides priscus Pillai, 1971 · unaccepted (incorrect subsequent spelling for...)
incorrect subsequent spelling for gender agreement of indeterminable name
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Pillai, T. Gottfried. (1971). Studies on a collection of marine and brackish-water polychaete annelids of the family Serpulidae from Ceylon. <em>Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences).</em> 9(2): 88-130.
page(s): 102-104, fig. 4E-G [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 102-104, fig. 4E-G [details] Available for editors
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Note Panadura River mouth, Panadura, western Sri...
From editor or global species database
Type locality Panadura River mouth, Panadura, western Sri Lanka coast, 6.715° 79.8992° [details]
Status Hydroides prisca is a juvenile Hydroides with a developing operculum, not a valid new taxon (fide ten Hove & Ben-Eliahu,...
Status Hydroides prisca is a juvenile Hydroides with a developing operculum, not a valid new taxon (fide ten Hove & Ben-Eliahu, 2005). It cannot be assigned to a known species. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Hydroides prisca Pillai, 1971. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=328465 on 2025-05-07
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Nomenclature
original description
Pillai, T. Gottfried. (1971). Studies on a collection of marine and brackish-water polychaete annelids of the family Serpulidae from Ceylon. <em>Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences).</em> 9(2): 88-130.
page(s): 102-104, fig. 4E-G [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 102-104, fig. 4E-G [details] Available for editors
[request]Taxonomy
status source
ten Hove, H.A. & Ben-Eliahu, M. Nechama. (2005). On the identity of Hydroides priscus Pillai, 1971 - Taxonomic confusion due to ontogeny in some serpulid genera (Annelida: Polychaeta: Serpulidae). <em>Senckenbergiana biologica.</em> 85(2):127-145.
note: as H. priscus [details]
note: as H. priscus [details]
Other
additional source
Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [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): 208, fig. 120E [details]
[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): 208, fig. 120E [details]
Syntype BMNH 1968: 143/144, geounit Sri Lanka [details]
From editor or global species database
Status Hydroides prisca is a juvenile Hydroides with a developing operculum, not a valid new taxon (fide ten Hove & Ben-Eliahu, 2005). It cannot be assigned to a known species. [details]Type locality Panadura River mouth, Panadura, western Sri Lanka coast, 6.715° 79.8992° [details]
