
Harry ten HoveNaturalis Biodiversity Center | NCB · Department of Marine Zoology
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Introduction
Taxonomy, biogeography, phylogeny, ecology of Serpulidae, polychaetes with a calcareous tube.
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September 1985 - November 2010
December 2011 - present
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This report highlights the first substantial occurrence of the polychaete Ficopomatus enigmaticus in the Caspian Sea after nearly six decades. This taxon was observed on the southern coasts in the harbour zones of Bandar-e-Anzali and Anzali Trade Industrial Free Zone. Most recently, the densities of F. enigmaticus have gradually increased in the ma...
A new species of serpulid from Caribbean Sea and Brazil is described: Hydroides zibrowii ten Hove & Bastida-Zavala In: ten Hove et al. 2023
Serpulidae Rafinesque, 1815 is a speciose group of polychaetes that all inhabit calcareous tubes. The family was traditionally subdivided into Serpulinae, Filograninae, and Spirorbinae. Recent phylogenetic analyses have suggested that both Filograninae and Serpulinae are paraphyletic, though with limited sampling. Here we report the first phylogene...
Dense aggregations of serpulid worms were encountered in the Daymaniyat Islands (Gulf of Oman) from 10 to 20 m depth, over the period January–March, 2021. The species responsible for these aggregations belongs to the Filograna/Salmacina-complex (Annelida: Serpulidae). This species has been present in the area and observed along the Oman coastline,...
Christmas tree worms (Serpulidae: Spirobranchus) occur in shallow parts of coral reefs, where they live as associates of a large number of stony coral species [...]
The Indonesian archipelago is one of the most diverse regions in the marine
World. Many contributions on polychaete worms have been published since the
Dutch Siboga Expedition to the Indonesian archipelago at the end of the 19th
century. In this study, we examined specimens of Sabellidae Latreille, 1825 collected
during the Snellius II Expedition (...
Caribbean Christmas tree worms (Annelida: Polychaeta: Serpulidae: Spirobranchus) are considered host generalists in their associations with anthozoan (Scleractinia) [...]
A newly established population of the fouling polychaete Spirobranchus cf. tetraceros is reported from the western Mediterranean (Valencia Port). Despite previous intensive surveys, this is the first record for the taxon in the Iberian Peninsula. Molecular analyses revealed that S. cf. tetraceros from Valencia are genetically identical to specimens...
The serpulid tube worm Hydroides ezoensis, originating from the Pacific and introduced near the mouth of the Loire River, France in 1973 or earlier, did not spread widely. After it had been recorded in southern England in 1976 and northwest France in 1997 no newly colonised areas in Europe were reported. In the course of monitoring of hard substrat...
Reef-dwelling Christmas tree worms (Spirobranchus spp.) are common coral associates. Their calcareous tubes are usually embedded in the coral skeleton and can be closed by an operculum. Tubes not overgrown by coral tissue either remain bare or become covered by algae. Despite their widespread distribution, high abundance and striking appearance, li...
A common intertidal belt-forming serpulid Spirobranchus kraussii (Baird, 1865) was originally described from South Africa and subsequently reported from tropical and subtropical localities, mainly in the Indo-Pacific and Mediterranean Sea. It generally is assumed that the wide distribution of the nominal species is a result of human-mediated transl...
Christmas tree worms of the genus Spirobranchus (Polychaeta: Serpulidae) are common associates of reef corals. Regarding host selection they are known to be generalists, both on Caribbean and Indo‐Pacific coral reefs (Hoeksema and Ten Hove 2017, Perry et al. 2018a). They rarely settle on other invertebrates, such as giant clams (Van der Schoot et a...
Research Infrastructures (RIs) are facilities, resources and services used by the scientific community to conduct research and foster innovation. LifeWatch ERIC has developed various virtual research environments, which include many virtual laboratories (vLabs) offering high computational capacity and comprehensive collaborative platforms that supp...
Research Infrastructures (RIs) are facilities, resources and services used by the scientific community to conduct research and foster innovation. LifeWatch ERIC has developed various virtual research environments, which include many virtual laboratories (vLabs) offering high computational capacity and comprehensive collaborative platforms that supp...
Species of the genus Spirobranchus, commonly known as Christmas tree worms, are abundant throughout tropical Indo-Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Information on the species inhabiting the Red Sea in general and the Gulf of Eilat (Gulf of Aqaba) in particular, has so far been very limited. Here we present a multigene phylogenetic analysis, examining bo...
Research Infrastructures (RIs) are facilities, resources and services used by the scientific community to conduct research and foster innovation. LifeWatch ERIC has developed various virtual research environments, which include many virtual laboratories (vLabs) offering high computational capacity and comprehensive collaborative platforms that supp...
Fan worms, represented by sabellid and serpulid polychaetes, have an astonishing array of unusual eyes and photoreceptors located on their eponymous feeding appendages. Here we organize the previous descriptions of these eyes in serpulids and report new anatomical, molecular, and physiological data regarding their structure, function, and evolution...
Interspecific relationships of invasive species hosting a native associated species are noteworthy, particularly if the invasive does not have a similar relationship in its native range. The azooxanthellate Indo-Pacific coral Tubastraea coccinea (Dendrophylliidae) has become a widespread invasive in the tropical western Atlantic, where it was proba...
In order to demonstrate how scleractinian corals contribute to marine biodiversity by their host function, information on associated fauna was gathered during a biological survey at St. Eustatius, eastern Caribbean. This knowledge is especially urgent for a host coral such as Helioseris cucullata (Agariciidae), which has undergone strong declines i...
Christmas tree worms ( Spirobranchus spp.) are prominent sessile organisms inhabiting hermatypic corals in tropical and sub-tropical reefs. Until recently, most of the larger Spirobranchus species were considered to be in obligatory associations with live hermatypic corals. However, recent studies indicate that some Spirobranchus species can build...
As a service to taxonomists and ecologists using names in the well-known and species-rich ship-fouling serpulid genus Hydroides we present an update of all 107 non-synonymised scientific names, with additional information on Hydroides nomenclature, original names, etymologies, and type localities derived from original literature, and in accord with...
Hydroides type-species data summary
Some sponge species, such as Chalinula milnei (de Laubenfels, 1954) and Terpios hoshinota (Rützler and Muzik, 1993), are known to encrust and smother large parts of stony corals, causing serious damage (Bryan 1973; Hoeksema et al. 2014). Little is known how these encrusters affect coral-associated fauna.During a biodiversity survey in the Red Sea n...
staff members, PhD candidates and MSc students of the Naturalis Marine Biodiversity Team performed fieldwork on the reefs of Curaçao investigating crabs, shrimps, mollusks and polychaetes living in association with various invertebrate groups. Additionally, octocorals and stony corals were studied as potential host species. SCUBA dives were made at...
Serpulidae are obligatory sedentary polychaetes inhabiting calcareous tubes that are most common in subtropical and tropical areas of the world. This paper describes serpulid polychaetes collected from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia in 1983-2013 and deposited in Australian museums and overseas. In total, 17 serpulid genera were record...
Hydroides Gunnerus, 1768 is the largest and one of the economically most important genera of calcareous tubeworms (Serpulidae, Annelida) that includes a number of notorious fouling and bioinvading species. Although the representatives of the genus are typically found in shallow waters of tropical and subtropical areas worldwide, the species composi...
Geomorphological and biological archives of relative sea-level change in the western North Atlantic-Caribbean region following the Last Glacial Maximum have traditionally supported the hypothesis of a punctuated rise towards the present sea level. Such records, however, are often at insufficient resolution to discern centennial-scale changes. In ca...
A new genus and species of Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from the Caribbean Sea. Turbocavus secretus (gen. nov. and sp. nov.) is described from shallow hard substrates (0.5-3 m) in wind-sheltered bays of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands and Curacao, as well as from diving depths (46-49 m) around Bonaire (Leeward Antilles), Caribbean Sea. The new t...
A well-illustrated glossary supports the study of polychaete anatomy and systematics, as well as aiding species
identification, a need that emerged within the shipping and aquaculture industries over recent decades. Sabellidae,
Serpulidae and Spionidae are polychaete families that most often include species that are translocated globally through
sh...
A description oiHydroid.es bulbosus sp. nov. (Polychaeta, Serpulidae), from the Gulf of Iran, may serve as a standard for future descriptions in the genus. A comparison with probably related species, H. albiceps, H. steinitzi and H. trivesiculosus, is given. A standard terminology for opercular structures in the genus is proposed.
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Conclusions: We have not found a single autapomorphy for either Chitinopoma, Chitinopomoides or Filogranula, on the basis of an analysis of variability within all taxa, the first 2 genera should be synonymized with Filogranula. The main characters used for distinction in the past were presence or respectively absence of brood chambers or elaborate...
The calcareous operculum of Pyrgopolon
ctenactis is composed of spherulitic prismatic structures. The opercular cup consists of regular spherulitic prismatic crystals; the talon has two layers, an inner with an irregular spherulitic prismatic structure (150 μm thick) and an outer with a regular spherulitic prismatic structure (110 μm thick). The ou...
Tube ultrastructure of Jurassic and Cretaceous Glomerula is very similar to that of Recent Calcisabella, supporting the synonymy of these genera and the early Mesozoic origin of calcification in sabellids. Tube structure of serpulids differs from that of Glomerula; calcareous tubes probably evolved convergently within Sabellida. The tube wall in Re...
A scuba-diving expedition along the Mediterranean coast of Israel focused on crevice and overhang concretionary ("coralligenous") habitats. Twenty-two serpulid species were collected. Four are new records from the Israeli coast: Rhodopsis pusilla and Semivermilia crenata (cryptic species previously reported from (he Levant [Cyprus]) and Hydroides m...
This study is a revision of the poorly known genus Pseudochitinopoma Zibrowius, 1969 (Annelida, Serpulidae), erected for Hyalopomatopsis occidentalis Bush, 1905 from the West Coast of North America. Subsequently, an unnamed Pseudochitinopoma sp. nov. from the Seychelles (ten Hove 1994) (described herein as P. amirantensis sp. nov.) and P. pavimenta...
Serpulidae (Sabellida, Annelida) is a large group of sedentary polychaetes that live in the calcareous tubes they secrete. In addition to being an important component of marine hard-bottom benthic communities, serpulids include several economically important invasive and/or fouling species. In this paper we describe the serpulids from Hong Kong, ba...
Data on Serpulidae collected in the Suez Canal were assembled and analyzed. Five serpulid taxa are reported from the canal for the first time bringing the number of serpulids to at least 16. The Systematic Section compiles revised literature records, confirmed synonymies of the taxa, redescriptions where necessary, photographic studies of taxa and...
Of the approximately 350 described species of serpulid polychaetes, only Marifugia cavatica inhabits fresh water. It is distributed in ground waters of the Dinaric Karst in northeastern Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Hercegovina. Five other serpulid species, comprising the genus Ficopomatus, are found in brackish water locations worldwide...
The inner tube layer of Pomatoceros americanus has a complex oriented ultrastructure, which cannot be explained by the standard granular secretion model, predicting a largely unoriented structure of the tube. In the lamello-fibrillar structure of the inner tube layer, the crystallization axis of crystals has a uniform orientation, which is not cont...
The Serpulidae are a large group of sedentary polychaetes inhabiting calcareous tubes. The relationships within the group are poorly understood and taxonomy of the group is very confused which is a major obstacle to accessing their phylogeny. This review provides up-to-date information on the current state of taxonomy of Serpulidae sensu lato (not...
As a contribution to unravel the confusion of the Spirobranchus corniculatus complex a detailed redescription is given of S. gaymardi, together with an overview of the S. giganteus complex. The operculum of S. gaymardi in its most typical form is clearly distinguished from that of any other Spirobranchus species by the presence of two short, broade...
We have studied the tube ultrastructure of 44 recent species from 36 serpulid genera. Twelve distinct ultrastructures are identified. Serpulids possess very diverse tube ultrastructures, in contrast with the traditional point of view. Most species show single-layered tubes, but 34% of these species have between two and four ultrastructurally differ...
The tube wall in Ditrupa is composed of two layers of Mg-calcite. The outer, hyaline layer has a unique type of ultrastructure, unknown in other invertebrate skeletons, here termed regularly ridged prismatic structure (RRP). This structure is characterized by ridged lateral surfaces
of the prisms, which interlock the prisms. RRP structure exclusive...
Twenty seven samples of syllids (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Indonesia collected during the Siboga Expedition (1899–1900) and five during the Snellius II Expedition (1984) have been examined. Material from several other museums and Institutions has also been included. Unpublished identifications of Siboga material by Augener have been checked and al...
Twenty seven samples of syllids (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Indonesia collected during the Siboga Expedition (1899– 1900) and five during the Snellius II Expedition (1984) have been examined. Material from several other museums and Institutions has also been included. Unpublished identifications of Siboga material by Augener have been checked and a...
Phylogenetic relationships of (19) serpulid taxa (including Spirorbinae) were reconstructed based on 18S rRNA gene sequence data. Maximum likelihood, Bayesian inference, and maximum parsimony methods were used in phylogenetic reconstruction. Regardless of the method used, monophyly of Serpulidae is confirmed and four monophyletic, well-supported ma...
The serpulid tubeworm Hydroides sanctaecrucis is recorded from tropical northern Australia for the first time. This species is native to the Caribbean, where it is common
in coastal lagoons, and has not previously been reliably recorded from the western Pacific. The species was identified after
heavy and unusual serpulid fouling was noted on vessel...
We introduce the concept 'bioperculate chimaera' for an ontogenetic stage in the genus Hydroides having two different two-tier opercula, one a small operculum with simple (un-differentiated) spines - an H. 'priscus'-type - present on the opposite branchial lobe from an operculum characteristic of Hydroides cf. albiceps, or H. cf. brachyacanthus, or...
The EU funded project BioCASE (contract nr. EVR1-CT-2001-40017) has established a web-based information service providing researchers with unified access to biological collections in Europe while leaving control of the information with the collection holders. The BioCASE project was based on the preceding EU projects CDEFD, BIOCISE and ENHSIN, and...
A taxonomic revision of the Hydroides species (Polychaeta: Serpulidae) from the Eastern Pacific Ocean is presented. Twenty-one taxa are recorded, of which two are widespread (H. diramphus and H. elegans), four are Amphiamerican, and sixteen taxa are characterized. Three species are newly described: Hydroides deleoni n. sp., H. panamensis n. sp. and...
A taxonomic revision of the Hydroides species (Polychaeta: Serpulidae) from the Western Atlantic Region is presented. Twenty-six taxa are described, including a comparison between four species with ‘winged’ verticil spines: Hydroides alatalateralis, H. elegantulus, H. floridanus and H. spongicola, between two forms of the H. mongeslopezi complex, a...
The paper summarises information on the life history of tubeworms (Serpulidae and Spirorbidae). Topics reviewed are sexuality patterns, asexual development, gamete attributes, fecundity, spawning and fertilisation, larval development and morphology, larval ecology and behaviour (including larval swimming, feeding, photoresponse, and defences), broo...
Serpulid holdings of The Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University Museums were reviewed. Additional samplings of fresh material (0-25 m) from under rocks in the "Venezia" artificial lagoon; piers of the Oil Port; coral rubble and from living massive corals revealed some 25 taxa distributed among 12 genera. Many taxa belong to "species-complexes,"...
A review of habitats with Recent serpulid mass-occurrences allows interpretation of the palaeoenvironment in which the serpulid limestones in the "Upper Malm' (Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous) of NW Germany may have been laid down. The Lower Serpulid Limestones represent concentrations of re-deposited serpulid tubes. In the Upper Serpulid Limestone...
Rhodopsis pusilla Bush 1905. a minute species characterized by a chitinous opereular plate bearing numerous spines is redescribed and a neotype is designated. Apomatolos Uchida. 1978 is synonymized with Rhodopsis. Ventral fillform mouth-palps are present a rarely observed character in common with Pseudovermilia Bush. Variability between and within...
Descriptions and diagnoses are given for Laminatubus alvini gen. et sp.n. and Proric hydrothermica sp.n. Both species have been collected by submersibles (Alvin and Cyana) in four areas with hydrothermal activity on the Galapagos Ridge and on the East Pacific Risc (approx. 1°N, 10°N. 13°N and 21°N), at depths of about 2500–2600 m. The microstructur...
Descriptions and diagnoses are given for Laminatubus alvini gen. et sp.n. and Protis hydrothermica sp.n. Both species have been collected by submersibles (Alvin and Cyana) in four areas with hydrothermal activity on the Galapagos Ridge and on the East Pacific Rise (approx. 1°N, 10°N, 13°N and 21°N), at depths of about 2500-2600 m. The microstructur...
Ventral thoracic bloodvessel-patterns were defined in a random sample of 152 living specimens of the Apomatus/Protula- complex. Two main patterns and a derived one could be recognized. Eight characters, often used in Serpulid taxonomy and retraceable in preserved material, were determined too: e.g. presence or absence of an operculum and pattern of...
The brackish water serpulid genera Mercierella, Mercierellopsis, Neopomatus and Sphaeropomatus are synonymized with Ficopomatus, including four species: F. enigmaticus, F. macrodon, F. miamiensis and F. uschakovi. The geographical distributions of the species are illustrated, and the confused identity of tropical specimens has been clarified, at le...