WoRMS taxon details
NomenclatureTaxonomyredescription
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
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): 184-185, fig. 107 [details]
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Ecology symbiont of sponge Neofibularia nolitangere [details]
Etymology Not stated but H. spongicola is evidently named from English ‘sponge’ as stem spongi- combined with the New Latin adjective colus –a -um ‘dwelling in’, because of its association as “frail calcareous tubes in living sponges [details]
Syntype United States National Museum 975, Zoological Museum Amsterdam V.Pol. 3209 [details]
Type locality West offshore from Venice, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, USA, 48 m. author geodata 27.0667°, -83.3542° [details]
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