Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Fauvel, 1923)

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Species Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Fauvel, 1923)


Compiler and date details

Jan 2011 - P. Hutchings & M. Yerman, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Introduced from cryptogenic - its status as an introduction is unclear.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

  • South Africa

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Central W coast, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NE coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast
  • Hawaii

Nearctic Region

  • United States of America
    • California
    • Texas

Neotropical Region

  • Argentina
  • Uruguay

Palaearctic Region

  • France
  • Netherlands
  • Tunisia

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, rock bottom, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

On hard substrates.

 

Citations

Mercierella enigmatica.
—Fauvel, P. 1927. Faune de France Vol. 16 Polychètes sedentaires. Addenda aux Errantes, Archiannélides, Myzostomaires. Librairie de la Faculté des Sciences. Paris : Paul Lechevalier 1–494 pp. [360, fig. 123].
—Monro, C.C.A. 1938. On a small collection of Polychaeta from Swan River, Western Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 2: 614–624 [624].
—Dew, B. 1959. Serpulidae (Polychaeta) from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 25: 19–56 [29–31, fig. 8].
—Straughan, D. 1966. Australian brackish water serpulids (Annelida: Polychaeta). Records of the Australian Museum 27: 139–146 [143–144].

Ficopomatus enigmaticus.
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1981. Teil 6. Die Polychaeten der tropisch-asubtropischen Westküste Australiens (zwischen Exmouth im Norden und Cervantes im Süden. In Hartmann-Schröder, G. & Hartmann, G. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeta. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 19–96 pp. [63].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1983. Teil 9. Die Polychaeten der antiborealen Südwestküste Australiens (zwischen Dunsborough im Norden und Denmark im Süden). In Hartmann-Schröder, G. & Hartmann, G. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeta. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 123–167 pp. [152].
—Hutchings, P.A. & Murray, A. 1984. Taxonomy of Polychaetes from the Hawkesbury River and the southern estuaries of New South Wales, Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 3: 1–118 [107].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1987. Teil 13. Die Polychaeten der antiborealen Küste von Victoria (Australien) (zwischen Warrnambool im Westen und Port Welshpool im Osten). In Hartmann-Schröder, G. & Hartmann, G. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeta. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 27–66 pp. [60–61]
—Cohen, B.F., McArthur, M.A. & Parry, G.D. 2001. Exotic Marine Pests in the Port of Melbourne, Victoria. Marine and Freshwater Resources Institute, Report No.25. 1–69 pp. [40]

Misidentifications

Note that Mercierella enigmatica from tropical regions (at least partly) belong to one of the three other species of Ficopomatus.

 

General References

Hutchings, P.A. & Johnson, R.T. 2011. Lumbrineris latreilli Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1834, http://biodiversity.org.au/afd (due to the large number of literature citations of this species, only a selected bibliography for Australian material is given. It should be noted that Mercierella enigmatica from tropical regions (at least partly) belong to one of the three other species of Ficopomatus)

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023 15-Feb-2011 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 03-Nov-2010 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 09-Aug-2010 MOVED
12-Feb-2010 (import)