WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Benedict, James E. (1887). Descriptions of ten species and one new genus of annelids from the dredging of the U.S. Fish Comm. Steamer Albatross. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 9: 547-553, plates 20-25., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.9-594.547 [details] 
Taxonomyredescription
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. [details]
Otheradditional 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
Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) note: very doubtful record [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): 163, fig. 91 [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Not stated, but H. protulicola is evidently named from Protula (serpulid genus) combined with the New Latin adjective colus –a -um ‘dwelling in’, because it was fastened on the tube of Protula diomedeae Benedict, 1887. [details]
Syntype United States National Museum 972, Zoological Museum Amsterdam V.Pol. 3211 [details]
Type locality Northeast off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, USA, 86 m, 35.7°, -74.9083 (author) [details]
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