''Hydroides'' is a genus of tube-forming

serpulid The Serpulidae are a family of sessile, tube-building annelid worms in the class Polychaeta. The members of this family differ from other sabellid tube worms in that they have a specialized operculum that blocks the entrance of their tubes ...

worms found on submerged saltwater rocks, shells, and boats in many coastal areas around the world.

Species

It contains the following species: * '' Hydroides bispinosa'' (Bush, 1910) * '' Hydroides brachyacantha'' (Rioja, 1863) * '' Hydroides crucigera'' (Moerch, 1863) * '' Hydroides dianthus'' (Verrill, 1873) * '' Hydroides dirampha'' (Mörch, 1863) * '' Hydroides elegans'' (Haswell, 1883) * '' Hydroides ezoensis'' (Okuda, 1934) * '' Hydroides huanghaiensis'' (Sun & Yang, 2000) * '' Hydroides lirs'' (Kupriyanova, Sun, ten Hove, Wong & Rouse, 2015) * '' Hydroides longispinosa'' (Chen & Wu, 1980) * '' Hydroides microtis'' (Mörch, 1863) * '' Hydroides norvegica'' (Gunnerus, 1768) * '' Hydroides parva'' (Treadwell, 1902) * '' Hydroides protulicola'' (Benedict, 1887) * '' Hydroides sanctaecrucis'' (Krøyer in Mörch, 1863) * '' Hydroides xishaensis'' (Chen & Wu, 1978)

Ecology

Parasites of ''Hydroides'' include sea snails from the genus '' Fargoa''.

References

External links

A new introduced fouling organism in Sydney Harbour

MBL Marine Organisms Database page

Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)-U.K. on ''H. ezoensis''
Serpulidae Polychaete genera Taxa named by Johan Ernst Gunnerus {{annelid-stub