Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Canalipalpata > Order Sabellida > Family Serpulidae > Genus Ficopomatus

Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Fauvel, 1923)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

FicopomatusSouthern, 1921accepted genus name
Mercierella Fauvel, 1923 synonym

Species group names

Mercierella enigmatica Fauvel, 1923 synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Danish: Australsk kalkrørsorm sources: Website on alien species in Swedish Seas and Coastal areas.
 Dutch: trompetkalkkokerworm sources: Leewis, R. (2002). Flora en fauna van de zee [Marine flora and fauna]. Veldgids, 16. KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5011-153-X. 320 pp.
 English: Australian tubeworm; tube worm sources: Website on alien species in Swedish Seas and Coastal areas.;Dewarumez, J.-M.; Gévaert, F.; Massé, C.; Foveau, A.; Desroy, N.; Grulois, D. (2011). Les espèces marines animales et végétales introduites dans le bassin Artois-Picardie . UMR CNRS 8187 LOG/Agence de l’Eau Artois-Picardie: Douai. 138 pp.
 French: mercierelle sources: Dewarumez, J.-M.; Gévaert, F.; Massé, C.; Foveau, A.; Desroy, N.; Grulois, D. (2011). Les espèces marines animales et végétales introduites dans le bassin Artois-Picardie . UMR CNRS 8187 LOG/Agence de l’Eau Artois-Picardie: Douai. 138 pp.
 German: Tüten-Kalkröhrenwurm sources: Website on alien species in Swedish Seas and Coastal areas.
 Swedish: Australisk kalkrörsmask

Literature

original description

Fauvel, P. 1923. Un nouveau serpulien d'eau saumatre Merceriella n.g., enigmatica n.sp. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France, 47: 424-430.

basis of record

Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 214-231

additional source

Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.

additional source

Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453

additional source

Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta

additional source

Aloui-Bejaoui, N., Afli, A. 2012. Functional diversity of the macro-invertebrate community in the port area of Kerkennah Islands (Tunisia). Medit. Mar. Sci., 13 (1): 93-102.

additional source

Read, Geoffrey B. and Gordon, Dennis P. 1991. Adventive occurence of the fouling serpulid Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Polychaeta) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 25: 269-273.

additional source

Glasby, C.J.; Read, G.B.; Lee, K.E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 312-358.

additional source

Fauchald, K., A. Granados-Barba, and V. Solís-Weiss. 2009. Polychaeta (Annelida) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 751–788 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

additional source

Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.

source of synonymy

Hove, Harry A. ten and Weerdenburg, J. C. A. 1978. A generic revision of the brackish-water serpulid Ficopomatus Southern 1921 (Polychaeta: Serpulinae), including Mercierella Fauvel 1923, Sphaeropomatus Treadwell 1934, Mercierellopsis Rioja 1945 and Neopomatus Pillai 1960. Biological Bulletin.Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole 154: 96-120.

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Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
Marine Life Information Network - UK
GenBank (4 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Read, G.; ten Hove, H. (2014). Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Fauvel, 1923). In: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2014) World Polychaeta database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130988

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Occurrence

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Environment


marine, brackish, not terrestrial

Importance

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2014-03-01 by Geoffrey Read

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