World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS) - Hydroides heterocera (Grube, 1868)

WRiMS taxon details

Hydroides heterocera (Grube, 1868)

AphiaID

851900 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:851900)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Hydroides Gunnerus, 1768

Original name

Serpula (Eupomatus) heterocerus Grube, 1868 [original]

Synonymised names

Hydroides heterocerus (Grube, 1868) · unaccepted (mandatory gender agreement of suffix)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of ) Grube, A.E. 1868. Beschreibungen einiger von Georg Ritter von Frauenfeld gesammelter Anneliden und Gephyreen des rothen Meeres. Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 18: 629-650. Plates 7-8., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25254604
page(s): 639, plate 7 fig. 8; note: as S. (Eupomatus) heterocerus original spelling [details]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Hydroides heterocera (Grube, 1868). Accessed through: Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stepien, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2025) World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/introduced./aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=851900 on 2026-07-10

Thematic species database citation

Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stępień, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2026). World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS). Hydroides heterocera (Grube, 1868). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=851900 on 2026-07-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2015-08-05 23:02:39Z

created

Read, Geoffrey

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original description (of ) Grube, A.E. 1868. Beschreibungen einiger von Georg Ritter von Frauenfeld gesammelter Anneliden und Gephyreen des rothen Meeres. Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 18: 629-650. Plates 7-8., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25254604
page(s): 639, plate 7 fig. 8; note: as S. (Eupomatus) heterocerus original spelling [details]

additional source Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 90; note: brief record, no figure [details]

additional source Kupriyanova, E.; Sun, Y.; Wong, E.; Ten Hove, H. (2023). Hydroides of the World. , available online at https://books.google.be/books?id=6krIEAAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&ots=EB8wg9X76r&dq=Kupriyanova%2C%20E.%3B%20Sun%2C%20Y.%3B%20Wong%2C%20E.%3B%20Ten%20Hove%2C%20H.%20(2023).%20Hydroides%20of%20the%20World.%20&lr&hl=nl&pg=PA199#v=onepage&q&f=false
page(s): 120, fig. 59 [details]

redescription Zibrowius, H. (1971). Les espèces méditerranéennes du genre Hydroides (Polychaeta Serpulidae). Remarques sur le prétendu polymorphisme de Hydroides uncinata. Tethys. 2: 691-746.
page(s): 715; note: First to use the 'heterocera' spelling required if Hydroides is feminine? [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hydroides heterocera)
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To PESI (from synonym Hydroides heterocerus (Grube, 1868))