First record of Hydroides similoides (Serpulidae: Polychaeta) from Brazil

Abstract

One specimen of the Atlantic polychaete Hydroides similoides is here reported as the first record for Brazil. After being first described from the Caribbean region (Puerto Rico-Venezuela), the range of distribution of this species is now extended to the Picãozinho reefs, State of Paraíba, Brazil (south-western Atlantic).

Do Morphological Similarities and human-induced dispersal explain the non-native occurrence of Serpulidae (Annelida) in Southwest Atlantic? Taxonomic detailing is the key

“…Zibrowius (1970) pioneered the study of the Serpulidae in Brazil. Subsequent research greatly expanded our knowledge of the diversity and ecology of this group in the southern Atlantic (Nonato & Luna, 1970;ten Hove, 1975;Rullier & Amourex, 1979;Silva et al, 1980;Knight-Jones & Knight-Jones, 1991;Paiva, 1993;Santa-Isabel et al, 2000;Nogueira & ten Hove, 2000;Neves & Omena, 2003;Winston & Migotto, 2005;Assis et al, 2008Assis et al, , 2009Assis et al, , 2012Nogueira & Abbud, 2009;Skinner et al, 2012;Amaral et al, 2013;Schawn et al, 2016;Vieira et al, 2016). As a result of these efforts, the serpulid fauna in Brazil is known to number 43 species, of which only 14% are originally described for Brazil and the remaining 86% are considered exotic species (Amaral et al, 2013;Pagliosa et al, 2014).…”

Catalogue of sponges, cnidarians, and echinoderms from Brazil based on a historical inventory of the Invertebrate Collection Paulo Young (CIPY)

“…In total, 36 described species are housed in this collection (Table 1), of which 28 are endemic. Additionally, some new records have been cited for the Brazilian littoral based from material deposited at the CIPY (e. g. Young, 1988;Young & Christoffersen, 1984;De Assis et al, 2008Santos et al, 2009;Gondim et al, 2010Gondim et al, , 2013aGondim et al, , 2015aGondim et al, , 2018aOliveira & Christoffersen, 2013;Brito et al, 2013;Prata et al, 2014b;.…”