WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Rioja, Enrique. (1941). Estudios anelidologicos II. Observaciones acerca de varias especies del genero Hydroides Gunnerus (sensu Fauvel) de las costas Mexicanas del Pacifico. <em>Anales del Instituto de Biologia, Mexico.</em> 12(1): 161-175. [details]
original description
(of Eupomatus recurvispina (Rioja, 1941)) Rioja, Enrique. (1941). Estudios anelidologicos II. Observaciones acerca de varias especies del genero Hydroides Gunnerus (sensu Fauvel) de las costas Mexicanas del Pacifico. <em>Anales del Instituto de Biologia, Mexico.</em> 12(1): 161-175. [details]
Taxonomyredescription
Bastida-Zavala, José Rolando; ten Hove, Harry A. (2003). Revision of <i>Hydroides</i> Gunnerus, 1768 (Polychaeta: Serpulidae) from the Eastern Pacific Region and Hawaii. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 53(4): 67-110., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/505009 page(s): 99; note: as H. recurvispina [details] Available for editors [request]
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Etymology Not stated, but the name for H. recurvispina is likely referring to the verticil spines which are sharply curving backwards on themselves. Thus Latin recurvus ‘backward curved’ combined with spina ‘thorn’. [details]
Type locality La Aguada, Acapulco, Mexico, 16.8398°, -99.9009° (map estimate) [details]
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