Part of Pixell's material has been re-identified as Spirobranchus murrayi Pillai, 2009; Sp. maldivensis as ... [details]

Pomatostegus polytrema (Philippi, 1844) as far as from temperate Australia, erroneously referred to as Pomatoceros ... [details]

author: "The specific name adamaformis is derived from the Latin adamas = diamond, and refers to the diamond-shaped ... [details]

The author named H. kimberleyensis after the Kimberley region of Western Australia. [details]

The author states he named H. pseudexaltatus after the superficial similarity of the operculum to that of H. exaltatus. [details]

The author states the name H. simplidentatus “refers to the simple unmodified spines at the base of the enlarged ... [details]

author: "Named after its characteristic inner tube". No derivation given. 'Tubus' is a masculine Latin noun, ... [details]

author: "Named after the spirally coiled tube". No derivation given. 'Tubus' is a masculine Latin noun, spira a ... [details]

author: "Named after its type locality, New Zealand". Pillai evidently preferred the spelling of 'zelandicus' ... [details]

no change even if treated as an adjectival name as -formis has the same ending feminine or masculine (adamas is ... [details]

author's species name 'spiculitubus' appears to be a compound noun in apposition, unchanging for gender agreement [details]

author's species name 'spiratubus' appears to be a compound noun in apposition, unchanging for gender agreement  [details]

Originally described as a variety of S. giganteus. Regarded to be a synonym of Spirobranchus tetraceros by ten Hove ... [details]

Synonymized by e.g. ten Hove (1970) with Spirobranchus tetraceros, the taxon has been reinstated by Pillai (2009: ... [details]

The reported wide distribution of S. tetraceros was a result of a study by ten Hove (1970) which lumped 22 nominal ... [details]

see notes under Spirobranchus giganteus corniculatus (Grube, 1862) and Spirobranchus gardineri Pixell, 1913 as well [details]

the Natural History Museum BMNH 1924.6.13.114 [details]

Off east side of Fenelon Island (main island of Institut Islands) at 6 m, Kimberley, Western Australia [details]

: "Island off north east Heywood Island" Kimberley, Western Australia. The author's given geolocation (15°05'S ... [details]

Unnamed reef north-west of (cf. author’s non-reef supplied geolocation which is east of) Buffon Island, ... [details]

Long Reef, Kimberleys, Western Australia, -13.9667 125.6333, 25 m [details]

east side of Fenelon Island, Kimberleys, Western Australia, 30 m, -15.2167°, 124.5167° [details]

No holotype, but only collection site (AM W21412 and AM W202944) was a sand cay on Port George IV Inlet, Kimberley, ... [details]

off North Island coast, near Kapiti Island, New Zealand, Discovery Station 941, -40.8567°, 174.8033°(40°51.4'S ... [details]

Holotype and paratype, BMNH 1959.10.10.39; [details]