Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Amphinomida > Family Amphinomidae > Subfamily Amphinominae > Genus Hermodice

Hermodice carunculata (Pallas, 1766)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Aphrodita Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hermodice*	Kinberg, 1857	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Catalan: cuc de foc sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

Dutch: brandworm sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: bearded fireworm; green bristle worm; green fireworm sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Bart-Feuerborstenwurm; Feuerwurm; Grüner Feuerwurm sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.;Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

Italian: verme di fuoco; verme di mare; vermocane

Spanish, Castillian: gusano de fuego

Literature

additional source	Fauvel, P. 1914. Annélides Polychètes de San Thomé (Golfe de Guinée) receuillies par M. Ch. Gravier. Archives de zoologie expérimentale et générale, 54(5): 105-155, Pl.7-8.
additional source	Hartman, Olga. (1948). The marine annelids erected by Kinberg. With some notes on some other types in the Swedish State Museum. Arkiv för Zoologi. 42(1): 1-137, & plates 1-18.
additional source	Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 214-231.
additional source	Fauvel, P. (1923). Polychètes errantes. Faune de France. Librairie de la Faculte des Sciences. Paris. 5: 1-488.
additional source	Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp.
additional source	de Kluijver, M. J.; Ingalsuo, S. S.; de Bruyne, R. H. (2000). Macrobenthos of the North Sea [CD-ROM]: 1. Keys to Mollusca and Brachiopoda. World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series. Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI): Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 3-540-14706-3. 1 cd-rom.
additional source	Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper. 23: 1-628.
additional source	Hartman, O. (1951). The littoral marine annelids of the Gulf of Mexico. Publications of the Institute of Marine Science, Port Aransas, Texas. 2(1): 7-124.
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.). Gulf of Mexico. Origin, Waters, and Biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas.
additional source	Baird, William. (1868 [volume for 1870]). Contributions towards a monograph of the species of annelides belonging to the Amphinomacea, with a list of the known species, and a description of several new species (belonging to the group) contained in the National Collection of the British Museum. To which is appended a short account of two hitherto nondescript annulose animals of a larval character. [published 26 November, 1868]. The Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology. 10(44): 215-250, plates IV-VI.
additional source	McIntosh, W.C. [M'Intosh]. (1885). Report on the Annelida Polychaeta collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology. 12 (part 34): i-xxxvi, 1-554, pl. 1-55, 1A-39A, & Annelida stations map.
status source	Ahrens, Joseph B.; Borda, Elizabeth; Barroso, Rômulo; Paiva, Paulo C.; Campbell, Alexandra M.; Wolf, Alexander; Nugues, Maggy M.; Rouse, Greg W.; Schulze, Anja. (2013). The curious case of Hermodice carunculata (Annelida: Amphinomidae): evidence for genetic homogeneity throughout the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent basins. Molecular Ecology. 22(8): 2280-2291.
ecology source	Schulze, Anya; Grimes, Candace J.; Rudek, Tiffany E. (2017). Tough, armed and omnivorous: Hermodice carunculata (Annelida: Amphinomidae) is prepared for ecological challenges. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. Efirst: [1-6].
ecology source	Yáñez-Rivera, B. & E. Suárez-Morales. (2008). Pseudanthessius tortuosus Stock, 1967 (Copepoda: Cyclopoida) from the amphinomid polychaete Hermodice carunculata (Pallas) in the western Caribbean. Systematic Parasitology. 69(3): 211-220.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Hermodice carunculata (Pallas, 1766). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129831