Hydroides

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Hydroides is a genus of tube-forming serpulid worms found on submerged saltwater rocks, shells, and boats in many coastal areas around the world.

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Hydroides tubeworm
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Clade: Pleistoannelida
Clade: Sedentaria
Order: Sabellida
Family: Serpulidae
Subfamily: Serpulinae
Genus: Hydroides
Gunnerus, 1768[1][2]
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Species

It contains the following species:

  • Hydroides bispinosa (Bush, 1910)
  • Hydroides brachyacantha (Rioja, 1863)
  • Hydroides crucigera (Moerch, 1863)
  • Hydroides dianthus (Verrill, 1873)
  • Hydroides dirampha (Mörch, 1863)
  • Hydroides elegans (Haswell, 1883)
  • Hydroides ezoensis (Okuda, 1934)
  • Hydroides huanghaiensis (Sun & Yang, 2000)
  • Hydroides lirs (Kupriyanova, Sun, ten Hove, Wong & Rouse, 2015)
  • Hydroides longispinosa (Chen & Wu, 1980)
  • Hydroides microtis (Mörch, 1863)
  • Hydroides norvegica (Gunnerus, 1768)
  • Hydroides parva (Treadwell, 1902)
  • Hydroides protulicola (Benedict, 1887)
  • Hydroides sanctaecrucis (Krøyer in Mörch, 1863)
  • Hydroides xishaensis (Chen & Wu, 1978)

Ecology

Parasites of Hydroides include sea snails from the genus Fargoa.[3]

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