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ERMS taxon detailsFicopomatus enigmaticus (Fauvel, 1923)
130988 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130988)
accepted
Species
Mercierella enigmatica Fauvel, 1923 · unaccepted (superseded original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh,
recent only
(of Mercierella enigmatica Fauvel, 1923) Fauvel, P. (1923). Un nouveau serpulien d'eau saumatre Mercierella n.g., enigmatica n.sp. <em>Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France.</em> 47: 424-430., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3043518 [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Fauvel, 1923). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=130988 on 2025-07-15
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025). European Register of Marine Species. Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Fauvel, 1923). Accessed at: https://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=130988 on 2025-07-15
Date action by
original description
(of Mercierella enigmatica Fauvel, 1923) Fauvel, P. (1923). Un nouveau serpulien d'eau saumatre Mercierella n.g., enigmatica n.sp. <em>Bulletin de la Société 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  context source (Schelde) Maris, T., O. Beauchard, S. Van Damme, E. Van den Bergh, S. Wijnhoven & P. Meire. (2013). Referentiematrices en Ecotoopoppervlaktes Annex bij de Evaluatiemethodiek Schelde-estuarium Studie naar “Ecotoopoppervlaktes en intactness index”. [Reference matrices and Ecotope areas Annex to the Evaluation methodology Scheldt estuary Study on “Ecotope areas and intactness index”. <em>Monitor Taskforce Publication Series, 2013-01. NIOZ: Yerseke.</em> 35 pp. (look up in RoR) [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 RoR) [details] Available for editors 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 RoR) [details] Available for editors 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 additional source Zenetos, A., M.E. Cinar, M.A. Pancucci-Papadopoulou, J.G. Harmelin, G. Furnari, F. Andaloro, N. Bellou, N. Streftaris & H. Zibrowius. (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 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 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., S. Gofas, M. Verlaque, M. Cinar, J. Garcia Raso, C. Bianchi, C. Morri, E. Azzurro, M. Bilecenoglu, C. Froglia, I. Siokou, D. Violanti, A. Sfriso, G. San Martin, A. Giangrande, T. Katagan, E. Ballesteros, A. Ramos-Espla, F. Mastrototaro, O. Ocana, A. Zingone, M,. Gambi & N. Streftaris. (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]  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 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] 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] additional source Corriero, G., C. Pierri, S. Accoroni, G.Alabiso, G. Bavestrello, E. Barbone, M. Bastianini, A.M. Bazzoni, F. Bernardi Aubry, F. Boero, M.C. Buia, M. Cabrini, E. Camatti, F. Cardone, B. Cataletto, R. Cattaneo Vietti, E. Cecere, T. Cibic, P. Colangelo, A. De Olazabal, G. D'onghia, S. Finotto, N. Fiore, D. Fornasaro, S. Fraschetti, M.C. Gambi, A. Giangrande, C. Gravili, R. Guglielmo, C. Longo, M. Lorenti, A. Lugliè, P. Maiorano, M.G. Mazzocchi, M. Mercurio, F. Mastrototaro, M. Mistri, M. Monti, C. Munari, L. Musco, C. Nonnis-Marzano, B.M. Padedda, F.P. Patti, A. Petrocelli, S. Piraino, G. Portacci, A. Pugnetti, S. Pulina, T. Romagnoli, I. Rosati, D. Sarno, C.T. Satta, N. Sechi, S. Schiaparelli, B. Scipione, L. Sion, A. Terlizzi, V. Tirelli, C. Totti, A. Tursi, N. Ungaro, A. Zingone, V. Zupo & A. Basset. (2015). Ecosystem vulnerability to alien and invasive species: a case study on marine habitats along the Italian coast. <em>Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems.</em> 26(2):392-409., available online at https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.2550 [details] Available for editors 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 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 biology source Ntzoumani, Athanasia-Violeta; Faulwetter, Sarah; Nikolakopoulos, Konstantinos G.; Avramidis, Pavlos; Ramfos, Alexis. (2024). Colonisation patterns and reef growth of the invasive serpulid <i>Ficopomatus enigmaticus</i> in a Greek coastal lagoon. <em>African Zoology.</em> efirst: 1-16., available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15627020.2024.2321838 [details] biology source Sayyadoghly, Fariborz; Mirzajani, Alireza; Shabanipour, Nadir; Ten Hove, Harry A. (2024). Resurgence of massive occurrence of the invasive polychaete <i>Ficopomatus enigmaticus</i> (Fauvel, 1923) in the Caspian Sea. <em>Zoology in the Middle East.</em> 70(3): 267-274., available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09397140.2024.2378519 [details] Available for editors biology source Kobayashi, Genki; Itoh, Hajime; Nakajima, Nobuyoshi. (2023). First report of the mitogenome of the invasive reef-building polychaete Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Annelida: Serpulidae) and a cryptic lineage from the Japanese Archipelago. <em>Molecular Biology Reports.</em> 50(9): 7183-7196., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-023-08647-3 [details] Available for editors 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  Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Guide to the exotic species of San Francisco bay - Ficopomatus enigmaticus
Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (21 publications) (from synonym Mercierella enigmatica Fauvel, 1923) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ficopomatus enigmaticus) To GenBank (182 nucleotides; 175 proteins) (from synonym Mercierella enigmatica Fauvel, 1923) To GenBank (182 nucleotides; 175 proteins) To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) To Global Invasive Species Database (GISD) To Information system on Aquatic Non-Indigenous and Cryptogenic Species (AquaNIS) To NHMUK collection (Mercierella enigmatica Fauvel, 1922; SYNTYPE(S); NHMUK:ecatalogue:3536316) (from synonym Mercierella enigmatica Fauvel, 1923) To Niet-inheemse soorten Belgisch deel Noordzee en aanpalende estuaria (in Dutch) To NMNH Extant Collection (USNM 21126 Specimen-1) (from synonym Mercierella enigmatica Fauvel, 1923) To NMNH Extant Collection (USNM 21126 Specimen-2) (from synonym Mercierella enigmatica Fauvel, 1923) To PESI (from synonym Mercierella enigmatica Fauvel, 1923) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (2 records) (from synonym Mercierella enigmatica Fauvel, 1923) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (4 records) To ITIS |
