Hydroides is a genus of tube-forming serpulid 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