WoRMS taxon details
original 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]
original description
(of Eupomatus spongicola (Benedict, 1887)) 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]
additional 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]
redescription
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]
From editor or global species database
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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