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A new species of Hydroides (Polychaeta: Serpulidae) from western Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2002

J. Rolando Bastida-Zavala
Affiliation:
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Unidad Chetumal, Apartado Postal 424, Chetumal QROO, 77000 Mexico
J. Angel de León-González
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Invertebrados No-Arthropoda, Faculdad Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Apartado Postal 5 ‘F’, San Nicolás de los Garza, NL, 66451 Mexico

Abstract

A new species of Hydroides (Polychaeta: Serpulidae), is described. Thirty specimens of Hydroides tenhovei sp. nov. were found on a flat PVC structure on soft-bottoms near Punta San Juanico and five additional specimens from Cabo San Lázaro, Baja California Sur, Mexico. The new species is characterized by the presence of a verticil with three large dorsal hammer-shaped spines, partially fused; basal internal spinules are absent in these spines; other spines curve outwards, with sharp tips and a basal internal spinule.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2002 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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