Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Canalipalpata > Order Sabellida > Family Serpulidae > Subfamily Serpulinae > Tribe Serpulini > Genus Hydroides

Hydroides brachyacantha Rioja, 1941

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hydroides*	Gunnerus, 1768	accepted genus name
*Eupomatus*	Philippi, 1844	generic synonym
*Hydroides (Eucarphus)*	Mörch, 1863	synonym
*Hydroides (Eupomatus)*	Philippi, 1844	synonym

Species group names

*Hydroides brachyacanthus*	Rioja, 1941	orthographic variant

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: フトマガリカンザシゴカイ

Literature

original description	Rioja, Enrique. (1941). Estudios anelidologicos II. Observaciones acerca de varias especies del genero Hydroides Gunnerus (sensu Fauvel) de las costas Mexicanas del Pacifico. Anales del Instituto de Biologia, Mexico. 12(1): 161-175.
additional source	Yáñez-Rivera, Beatriz; Tovar-Hernández, María Ana; Galván-Villa, Cristian Moisés; Ríos-Jara, Eduardo. (2020). Tubicolous polychaete worms (Annelida) from Bahía de Chamela Islands Sanctuary, Mexico, with the description of a new bamboo worm. Biodiversity Data Journal. 8: e57572: 1-43.
additional source	Sun, Yanan; Al-Kandari, Manal; Kubal, Priti; Walmiki, Nitin; Kupriyanova, Elena K. (2017). Cutting a Gordian knot of tubeworms with DNA data: the story of the Hydroides operculata-complex (Annelida, Serpulidae). Zootaxa. 4323(1): 39-48.
additional source	Kupriyanova, E.; Sun, Y.; Wong, E.; Ten Hove, H. (2023). Hydroides of the World.
status source	Sun, Y.; Wong, E.; Tovar-Hernández, M. A.; Williamson, J. E.; Kupriyanova, E. K. (2016). Is Hydroides brachyacantha (Serpulidae : Annelida) a widespread species?. Invertebrate Systematics. 30(1): 41-59.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Hydroides brachyacantha Rioja, 1941. 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:328441