Hydroides elegans   (Haswell, 1883)

Calcareous tube worm

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Hydroides elegans

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Polychaeta | Sabellida | Serpulidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Sessile; depth range 0 - 3890 m (Ref. 102521).  Tropical

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Circumglobal.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Notable in tropical and subtropical coastal fouling communities (Ref. 102523). Found among living corals as well as on the underside of dead corals. Buried in the skeleton of Montastraea sp. while also seen attached to a dead Pocillopora damicornis (Ref. 102066). Filter feeds to extract minute plankton and organic matter from water column (Ref. 107862).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Members of the class Polychaeta are gonochoric (sexual), gametes are spawned through the metanephridia or body wall rupturing.

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice, L.G. Eldredge and J.T. Carlton. 1999. (Ref. 3356)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses


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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 3 - 13, mean 4.8 (based on 2429 cells).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.