Hydroides elegans

Short description: Species of annelid

Hydroides tubeworm

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Annelida
Clade:  | Pleistoannelida
Subclass:  | Sedentaria
Order:  | Sabellida
Family:  | Serpulidae
Genus:  | Hydroides
Species:  |

H. elegans

Binomial name
Hydroides elegans

(Haswell, 1883)[1]

Synonyms

Eupomatus elegans Haswell, 1883

Hydroides elegans is a species of tube-forming serpulid worms. The species was first described in 1883 by William Aitcheson Haswell as Eupomatus elegans.[2][1]

It is a harbour fouling invasive species, in contrast with Hydroides norvegica with which it is sometimes confused.

Hyastenus hilgendorfi is a species of "decorator crab" which uses other organisms to cover its body and in a study in the Suez Canal H. elegans was one of the most frequent epibionts.

Hydroides elegans is well known to settle on man-made objects, build large aggregations of calcerous tubes, and perform calcification, which often leads to difficulties in extracting fossil fuels. Since they are an invasive species, they must require the contact of a bacterial biofilm to begin settlement.[3][4]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 , Wikidata Q114600712
2. ↑ "Australian Faunal Directory: Hydroides elegans" (in en). https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Hydroides_elegans.
3. ↑ Schwan, Isabela Dos Santos; Brasil, Ana Claudia Dos Santos; Neves, David; Dias, Gustavo M. (2015-11-26). "The invasive wormHydroides elegans(Polychaeta – Serpulidae) in southeastern Brazil and its potential to dominate hard substrata". Marine Biology Research 12 (1): 96–103. doi:10.1080/17451000.2015.1080370. ISSN 1745-1000.
4. ↑ Vijayan, Nidhi; Lema, Kimberley A.; Nedved, Brian T.; Hadfield, Michael G. (2019-01-11). "Microbiomes of the polychaete Hydroides elegans (Polychaeta: Serpulidae) across its life-history stages". Marine Biology 166 (2). doi:10.1007/s00227-019-3465-9. ISSN 0025-3162.

## External links

* Hydroides elegans at WoRMS

Wikidata ☰ Q2619236 entry

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