WoRMS taxon details

Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Fauvel, 1923)

130988  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130988)

accepted
Species
Mercierella enigmatica Fauvel, 1923 · unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Phycopomatus enigmaticus [lapsus] · unaccepted (genus misspelling for Ficopomatus...)  
genus misspelling for Ficopomatus in non-taxonomic work
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Mercierella enigmatica Fauvel, 1923) Fauvel, P. (1923). Un nouveau serpulien d'eau saumatre Merceriella n.g., enigmatica n.sp. Bulletin de la Sociét. <em>Zoologique de France.</em> 47: 424-430., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3043518 [details]   
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Fauvel, 1923). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=130988 on 2024-04-27
Date
action
by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
2007-03-12 12:43:33Z
checked
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed
2008-11-04 07:12:01Z
changed
2014-03-01 22:42:43Z
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original description  (of Mercierella enigmatica Fauvel, 1923) Fauvel, P. (1923). Un nouveau serpulien d'eau saumatre Merceriella n.g., enigmatica n.sp. Bulletin de la Sociét. <em>Zoologique de France.</em> 47: 424-430., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3043518 [details]   

taxonomy source Styan, Craig A. ; McCluskey, Claire F. ; Sun, Yanan; Kupriyanova, Elena K. (2017). Cryptic sympatric species across the Australian range of the global estuarine invader Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Fauvel, 1923) (Serpulidae, Annelida). <em>Aquatic Invasions.</em> 12(1): 53-65., available online at http://www.aquaticinvasions.net/2017/AI_2017_Styan_etal.pdf
note: possible cryptic molecular species detected, not named [details]   

context source (Introduced species) Katsanevakis, S.; Bogucarskis, K.; Gatto, F.; Vandekerkhove, J.; Deriu, I.; Cardoso A.S. (2012). Building the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN): a novel approach for the exploration of distributed alien species data. <em>BioInvasions Records.</em> 1: 235-245., available online at http://easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

context source (Schelde) Maris, T.; Beauchard, O.; Van Damme, S.; Van den Bergh, E.; Wijnhoven, S.; Meire, P. (2013). Referentiematrices en Ecotoopoppervlaktes Annex bij de Evaluatiemethodiek Schelde-estuarium Studie naar “Ecotoopoppervlaktes en intactness index”. <em>Monitor Taskforce Publication Series, 2013-01. NIOZ: Yerseke.</em> 35 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]   

additional source Read, G. B.; Gordon, D. P. (1991). Adventive occurrence of the fouling serpulid Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Polychaeta) in New Zealand. N.Z. Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 25: 269-273 [details]   

additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

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]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]   

additional source Streftaris, N., A. Zenetos & E. Papathanassiou. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. <em>Oceanogry and Marine Biology: an Annual Review.</em> 43: 419-453. (look up in IMIS[details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Rioja, Enrique. (1943). Estudios anelidologicos. IX. La presencia de la Mercierella enigmatica Fauvel, en las costas Argentinas. <em>Anales del Instituto de Biologia, Mexico.</em> 14(2): 548-551.
note: records for Argentina [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Zenetos, A.; Çinar, M.E.; Pancucci-Papadopoulou, M.A.; Harmelin, J.-G.; Furnari, G.; Andaloro, F.; Bellou, N.; Streftaris, N.; Zibrowius, H. (2005). Annotated list of marine alien species in the Mediterranean with records of the worst invasive species. <em>Mediterranean Marine Science.</em> 6 (2): 63-118., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273213810_Annotated_list_of_marine_alien_species_in_the_Mediterranean_with_records_of_the_worst_invasive_species [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth 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. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Fauchald, K.; Granados-Barba, A.; Solís-Weiss, V. (2009). Polychaeta (Annelida) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 751–788 in D.L. Felder and D.K. Camp (eds.). <em>Gulf of Mexico. Origin, Waters, and Biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity.</em> Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas., available online at https://books.google.es/books?id=CphA8hiwaFIC&lpg=PR1&pg=PA751 [details]   

additional source Zenetos, A.; Gofas, S.; Verlaque, M.; Cinar, M.; Garcia Raso, J.; Bianchi, C.; Morri, C.; Azzurro, E.; Bilecenoglu, M.; Froglia, C.; Siokou, I.; Violanti, D.; Sfriso, A.; San Martin, G.; Giangrande, A.; Katagan, T.; Ballesteros, E.; Ramos-Espla, A.; Mastrototaro, F.; Ocana, O.; Zingone, A.; Gambi, M.; Streftaris, N. (2010). Alien species in the Mediterranean Sea by 2010. A contribution to the application of European Union's Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). Part I. Spatial distribution. <em>Mediterranean Marine Science.</em> 11(2): 381-493., available online at https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.87 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Aloui-Bejaoui, N.; Afli, A. (2012). Functional diversity of the macro-invertebrate community in the port area of Kerkennah Islands (Tunisia). <em>Mediteranean Marine Science.</em> 13 (1): 93-102.
page(s): 99, 102 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Galil, B. (2007). Seeing Red: Alien species along the Mediterranean coast of Israel. <em>Aquatic Invasions.</em> 2(4): 281-312., available online at https://doi.org/10.3391/ai.2007.2.4.2 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Lutaenko, K.A.; Furota, T.; Nakayama; S.; Shin, K.; Xu, J. (2013). Atlas of Marine Invasive Species in the NOWPAP Region. Beijing: NOWPAP DINRAC (Northwest Pacific Action Plan, Data and Information Network Regional Center). 189 pp. [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Corriero, G.; Pierri, C.; Accoroni, S.; Alabiso, G.; Bavestrello, G.; Barbone, E.; Bastianini, M.; Bazzoni, A. M.; Bernardi Aubry, F.; Boero, F.; Buia, M. C.; Cabrini, M.; Camatti, E.; Cardone, F.; Cataletto, B.; Cattaneo Vietti, R.; Cecere, E.; Cibic, T.; Colangelo, P.; De Olazabal, A.; D'onghia, G.; Finotto, S.; Fiore, N.; Fornasaro, D.; Fraschetti, S.; Gambi, M. C.; Giangrande, A.; Gravili, C.; Guglielmo, R.; Longo, C.; Lorenti, M.; Lugliè, A.; Maiorano, P.; Mazzocchi, M. G.; Mercurio, M.; Mastrototaro, F.; Mistri, M.; Monti, M.; Munari, C.; Musco, L.; Nonnis-Marzano, C.; Padedda, B. M.; Patti, F. P.; Petrocelli, A.; Piraino, S.; Portacci, G.; Pugnetti, A.; Pulina, S.; Romagnoli, T.; Rosati, I.; Sarno, D.; Satta, C. T.; Sechi, N.; Schiaparelli, S.; Scipione, B.; Sion, L.; Terlizzi, A.; Tirelli, V.; Totti, C.; Tursi, A.; Ungaro, N.; Zingone, A.; Zupo, V.; Basset, A. (2015). Ecosystem vulnerability to alien and invasive species: a case study on marine habitats along the Italian coast., available online at https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.2550 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Marchini, A., J. Ferrario, A. Sfriso & A. Occhipinti-Ambrogi. (2015). Current status and trends of biological invasions in the Lagoon of Venice, a hotspot of marine NIS introductions in the Mediterranean Sea. <em>Biological Invasions.</em> 17:2943–2962., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-015-0922-3 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

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. [details]   

ecology source Pernet, B.; Barton, M.; Fitzhugh, K.; Harris, L.; Lizárraga, D.; Ohl, R.; Whitcraft, C. (2016). Establishment of the reef-forming tubeworm Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Fauvel, 1923) (Annelida: Serpulidae) in southern California. <em>BioInvasions Records.</em> 5(1): 13-19., available online at http://www.reabic.net/%5C/journals/bir/2016/1/BIR_2016_Pernet_etal.pdf
note: further recent California records from Los Angeles Port and River, and from lagoons in Santa Barbara County [details]   

ecology source Grosse, Maël; Pérez, Roberto; Juan-Amengual, Mateo; Pons, Joan; Capa, María. (2021). The elephant in the room: first record of invasive gregarious species of serpulids (calcareous tube annelids) in Majorca (western Mediterranean). <em>Scientia Marina.</em> 85(1): 15-28., available online at http://scientiamarina.revistas.csic.es/index.php/scientiamarina/article/view/1888
note: Three clades of Ficopomatus enigmaticus present [details]   

ecology source Hille, Sven; Kunz, Friederike; Markfort, Greta; Ritzenhofen, Lukas; Zettler, Michael. (2021). First record of mass occurrence of the tubeworm Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Fauvel, 1923) (Serpulidae: Polychaeta) in coastal waters of the Baltic Sea. <em>BioInvasions Records.</em> 10(4): 859-868., available online at https://www.reabic.net/journals/bir/2021/Issue4.aspx
note: Baltic Sea marinas [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

biology source Yee, Alison; Mackie, Joshua; Pernet, Bruno. (2019). The distribution and unexpected genetic diversity of the non-indigenous annelid Ficopomatus enigmaticus in California. <em>Aquatic Invasions.</em> 14(2): 250-266., available online at https://doi.org/10.3391/ai.2019.14.2.06 [details]   

biology source Costa, Ana; Parente, ManuelaI.; de Frias Martins, António M. (2019). The arrival of the invasive tubeworm Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Fauvel, 1923) (Annelida: Serpulidae) to the Azores, possibly via migratory birds. <em>BioInvasions Records.</em> 8(2): 242-251., available online at https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2019.8.2.05 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Alien species The Australian tubeworm Ficopomatus enigmaticus is a tube building polychaete worm with a presumable origin in the Southern Hemisphere. The tubeworm needs a hard substrate to attach to. High densities of the Australian tubeworm can form reef like structures reaching dimensions of 4 meters in width and more than 2 meters in height.The species would have reached Belgian regions through attachment on ship’s hulls, via ballast water or together with the transportation of molluscs. The Australian tubeworm was observed for the first time in Belgium in 1950 at the Ostend harbour, on the hull of a marine research vessel. Many see these worms as a pest because they form reefs on ships and harbour infrastructures. However along the Belgian coast Australian tubeworm reefs are yet to appear… [details]

Introduced species abundance in Slovenian part of the Adriatic Sea (Marine Region) : Common [details]

Introduced species abundance in Celtic Sea (IHO Sea Area) : Common [details]

Introduced species vector dispersal in Belgian part of the North Sea: Aquaculture: accidental [details]

Introduced species vector dispersal Belgian part of the North Sea (Marine Region) Ships: General [details]

Introduced species vector dispersal South African part of the Indian Ocean (Marine Region) Ships: accidental as attached or free-living fouling organisms [details]

From regional or thematic species database
Introduced species abundance in English Channel (IHO Sea Area) : Common [details]

Introduced species abundance in North Sea (IHO Sea Area) : Common [details]

Introduced species impact in United Kingdom part of the Celtic Sea (Marine Region) : Water abstraction or nuisance fouling [details]

Introduced species impact in New Zealand (Nation) : Water abstraction or nuisance fouling [details]

Introduced species impact in Italy (Nation) : Adverse habitat modification [details]

Introduced species impact in Italy (Nation) : Alters bio-geochemical/hydrologic cycles [details]

Introduced species impact in New Zealand (Nation) : Loss of aquaculture/commercial/recreational harvest or gain [details]

Introduced species impact in New Zealand (Nation) : Water abstraction or nuisance fouling [details]

Introduced species impact in Uruguay (Nation) : Adverse habitat modification [details]

Introduced species impact in Uruguay (Nation) : Loss of aquaculture/commercial/recreational harvest or gain [details]

Introduced species impact in Slovenian part of the Adriatic Sea (Marine Region) : Adverse habitat modification [details]

Introduced species remark Argentinean part of the South Atlantic Ocean (Marine Region) Mesocosms experiments showed that nutrient supply increased the Chla concentration, but when reefs were added, the Chla decreased. Thus, nutrients increased the phytoplankton biomass but grazing by the reefs counteracted these increments. This indicates that an invader such as F. enigmaticus mightmodulate an anthropogenic impact via suspension feeding, and therefore its role in mitigate the consequences of eutrophication may be highly important. [details]

Introduced species remark In Slovenian part of the Adriatic Sea (Marine Region) : First recorded in Venetian lagoons in 1934 (Mizzan, 1999 in Lipej et al. 2012) and in the Secovlje Salina in 1994 (Lipej et al. 2009 in Lipej et al. 2012). Established and common in coastal wetlands esp. Skocjan Inlet where it forms organogenic formations [details]

Introduced species vector dispersal Azores part of the North Atlantic Ocean (Marine Region) Natural dispersal (we hypothesize natural
mediated dispersal through migratory bird phoresy) [details]

Introduced species vector dispersal in United Kingdom part of the Celtic Sea (Marine Region) : Ships: general [details]

Introduced species vector dispersal in New Zealand (Nation) : Ships: general [details]

Introduced species vector dispersal in Slovenian part of the Adriatic Sea (Marine Region) : Not clear if vector is ballast water or ships' hulls [details]

Introduced species vector dispersal Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea (Marine Region) Ships: general [details]

Introduced species vector dispersal in Belgian part of the North Sea: Ships: accidental with ballast water, sea water systems, live wells or other deck basins [details]

Introduced species vector dispersal in Spain (Nation) : Shipping [details]
LanguageName 
Danish Australsk kalkrørsorm  [details]
Dutch trompetkalkkokerworm  [details]
English tube wormAustralian tubeworm  [details]
French mercierelle  [details]
German Tüten-Kalkröhrenwurm  [details]
Japanese カニヤドリカンザシゴカイ  [details]
Swedish Australisk kalkrörsmask  [details]