Hydroides of the World
By: Elena Kupriyanova, Yanan Sun, Eunice Wong, Harry A. ten Hove
A fully illustrated guide to these ecologically and economically important calcareous tubeworms.
Serpulid polychaetes are a unique and highly specialised group of marine segmented worms that have adapted to inhabiting self-secreted calcareous tubes attached to a wide range of hard substrates. These animals are found across all depths and habitats of the world’s oceans, and some form mutually beneficial associations with live corals. The genus Hydroides is of special concern and importance, as it is not only the largest, but also one of the most ecologically and economically important groups of marine invertebrates because it includes notorious biofoulers and common bioinvaders that travel around the world hitchhiking on ships’ hulls. + Full description
This is the first fully illustrated guide to this notorious serpulid genus of calcareous tubeworms, providing a comprehensive diagnostic treatment of all known species of the genus Hydroides. This important reference provides reliable identification tools to distinguish Australian tubeworms from potential alien invaders that constantly arrive from overseas and threaten Australia’s maritime transport, trade and mariculture.
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Sales in Australia and New Zealand only. Elsewhere, this title is available through CRC Press [external link].
Details
Paperback | July 2023 | $240.00ISBN: 9781486311583 | 248 pages | 270 x 210 mm
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
B&W photographs, Colour photographs, Illustrations
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Features
- Comprehensive worldwide coverage of all species of the genus Hydroides.
- Features full colour quality original micrographs.
- Includes detailed information on ecological and economic impacts.
- Provides an important reference for bioinvasion and fouling status.
Contents
Acknowledgements1: Introduction
2: Tubes
3: History of studies
4: Reproduction, development and life history
5: Ontogeny: reversible asymmetry, compensatory regeneration and duplicity
6: Economic and ecological impacts
7: Barcoding, phylogeny and genome structure
8: Biogeography
9: Methods of collecting, examination, preservation and identification
10: Diagnostic characters used for identification
11: Key to the species of Hydroides worldwide
12: Taxonomic account
Abbreviations of institutions where type material is deposited
Glossary
References
Index
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Authors
Dr Elena Kupriyanova is a Senior Research Scientist at the Australian Museum in Sydney. She received her PhD in 2004 from Flinders University in Adelaide, and previously worked at the University of Adelaide and Yokohama National University, Japan.
Dr Yanan Sun is a researcher at the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Science. She received her PhD in 2017 from Macquarie University in Sydney, and previously worked at Hong Kong Baptist University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Dr Eunice Wong is a Field Application Scientist at BioSkryb Genomics. She received her PhD in 2020 from the University of Queensland and previously worked on scientific illustration and molecular systematics of various marine invertebrate groups at the Australian Museum.
Dr Harry A. ten Hove is an Honorary Research Scientist at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands. He received his PhD in 1975 from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, and previously worked at the Universities of Utrecht and Amsterdam.
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