WoRMS taxon details
Ficopomatus macrodon Southern, 1921
155268 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:155268)
accepted
Species
Tricopomatus macrodon Southern, 1921 · alternative representation
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Southern, Rowland. (1921). Polychaeta of the Chilka Lake and also of fresh and brackish waters in other parts of India. <em>Memoirs of the Indian Museum.</em> 5(8): 563-659, plates XIX-XXXI., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36511332
page(s): 655-657, plate XXX figs. 27A-M [details]
page(s): 655-657, plate XXX figs. 27A-M [details]
Type locality contained in Indian Exclusive Economic Zone
, Note Indian Ocean, India, brackish water
type locality contained in Indian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Type locality Indian Ocean, India, brackish water [details]
Taxonomy part of the material included by ten Hove and Weerdenburg forms the types of Ficopomatus talehsapensis Pillai, 2008
Taxonomy part of the material included by ten Hove and Weerdenburg forms the types of Ficopomatus talehsapensis Pillai, 2008 [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Ficopomatus macrodon Southern, 1921. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=155268 on 2026-04-04
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Nomenclature
original description
Southern, Rowland. (1921). Polychaeta of the Chilka Lake and also of fresh and brackish waters in other parts of India. <em>Memoirs of the Indian Museum.</em> 5(8): 563-659, plates XIX-XXXI., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36511332
page(s): 655-657, plate XXX figs. 27A-M [details]
original description (of Tricopomatus macrodon Southern, 1921) Southern, Rowland. (1921). Polychaeta of the Chilka Lake and also of fresh and brackish waters in other parts of India. <em>Memoirs of the Indian Museum.</em> 5(8): 563-659, plates XIX-XXXI., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36511332 [details]
basis of record Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]
page(s): 655-657, plate XXX figs. 27A-M [details]
original description (of Tricopomatus macrodon Southern, 1921) Southern, Rowland. (1921). Polychaeta of the Chilka Lake and also of fresh and brackish waters in other parts of India. <em>Memoirs of the Indian Museum.</em> 5(8): 563-659, plates XIX-XXXI., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36511332 [details]
basis of record Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]
Taxonomy
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., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1540777 [details]
Other
additional source
Pillai, T.G. 2008. Ficopomatus talehsapensis, a new brackish-water species (Polychaeta: Serpulidae: Ficopomatinae) from Thailand, with discussions on the relationships of taxa constituting the subfamily, opercular insertion as a taxonomic character and their taxonomy, a key to its taxa, and their zoogeography. Zootaxa 1967: 36-52., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1967.1.2 [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
