Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Rioja, Enrique. (1958 (1957 issue)). Estudios anelidologicos. XXI. Observaciones acerca de algunas especies de serpulido de los generos Hydroides y Eupomatus de las costas Mexicanas del Golfo de Mexico. <em>Anales del Instituto de Biologia, Mexico.</em> 28(1/2): 247-266. page(s): 254; note: as Hydroides mucronata [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Fauchald, K.; Granados-Barba, A.; Solís-Weiss, V. (2009). Polychaeta (Annelida) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 751–788 in D.L. Felder and D.K. Camp (eds.). <em>Gulf of Mexico. Origin, Waters, and Biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity.</em> Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas., available online at https://books.google.es/books?id=CphA8hiwaFIC&lpg=PR1&pg=PA751 [details]
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): 145, fig. 76 [details]
additional source
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): 141 [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Not stated, but the name for H. mucronata is evidently referring to the pointed (Latin mucronatus) side spines of the verticil spines "que tienen forma de mucron" (Rioja 1958: 256). [details]
Taxonomy Bastida-Zavala & ten Hove give a full description of Hydroides cf. mucronatus, differing in one constant detail from nominal species [details]
Type locality Isla de Sacrificios, Veracruz, Gulf of Mexico, 19.1749°, -96.0929° (map estimate) [details]
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