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Hydroides minax

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Hydroides minax is a species in the family Serpulidae, order Sabellida.

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Quick facts about Hydroides minax

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does Hydroides minax live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Hydroides minax as introduced in 3 countries.

  1. Israel
  2. Lebanon
  3. Türkiye

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is Hydroides minax endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is Hydroides minax classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumAnnelida
  3. classPolychaeta
  4. orderSabellida
  5. familySerpulidae
  6. genusHydroides
  7. SpeciesHydroides minax (Grube, 1878)

Synonyms Eupomatus minax, Hydroides monoceros, Serpula minax, Serpula monoceros

Other names and names in other languages (1)
  • ハナマガリカンザシゴカイJapanese

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Hydroides minax

Other species in the same genus Hydroides.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is Hydroides minax an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Hydroides minax as introduced in 3 countries: Israel, Lebanon and Türkiye, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is Hydroides minax?

Hydroides minax (Hydroides minax) belongs to the family Serpulidae in the order Sabellida.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Hydroides minax (Hydroides minax). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/hydroides-minax

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BibTeX
@misc{hydroides_minax_2026,
  title = {Hydroides minax (Hydroides minax)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/hydroides-minax},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}