MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Mercierella enigmatica Fauvel, 1923

ERMS name details

Mercierella enigmatica Fauvel, 1923

To NHMUK collection (Mercierella enigmatica Fauvel, 1922; SYNTYPE(S); NHMUK:ecatalogue:3536316)

AphiaID

155394 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:155394)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (superseded original combination)

Accepted name

Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Fauvel, 1923)

Rank

Species

Parent

Mercierella Fauvel, 1923 accepted as Ficopomatus Southern, 1921

Original name

Mercierella enigmatica Fauvel, 1923

Environment

marine, brackish, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Fauvel, P. (1923). Un nouveau serpulien d'eau saumatre Mercierella n.g., enigmatica n.sp. Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France. 47: 424-430., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3043518 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta database. Mercierella enigmatica Fauvel, 1923. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2021) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=155394 on 2026-06-29

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Mercierella enigmatica Fauvel, 1923. Accessed at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=155394 on 2026-06-29

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-04-27 08:17:47Z

created

Appeltans, Ward

2008-03-13 13:29:12Z

changed

Fauchald, Kristian

2008-03-26 11:36:43Z

changed

Fauchald, Kristian

2011-02-04 20:55:47Z

changed

ten Hove, Harry

2014-03-01 22:42:43Z

changed

Read, Geoffrey

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original description Fauvel, P. (1923). Un nouveau serpulien d'eau saumatre Mercierella n.g., enigmatica n.sp. Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France. 47: 424-430., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3043518 [details]

basis of record Dauvin, J.-C.; Dewarumez, J.-M.; Gentil, F. (2003). Liste actualisée des espèces d'Annélides Polychètes présentes en Manche [An up to date list of polychaetous annelids from the English Channel]. Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 44(1): 67-95., available online at http://www.sb-roscoff.fr/sites/www.sb-roscoff.fr/files/documents/station-biologique-roscoff-dauvinal2003-3835.pdf [details] Available for editors

additional source Wesenberg-Lund, Elise. (1941). Notes on Polychaeta I. 1. Harmothoe bathydomus Hj. Ditlevsen refound. 2. On the sabellid genus Fabricia. 3. Three polychaetes from Ringk bing Fjord, unrecorded from Denmark. 4. Merciella enigmatica Fauvel, a serpulid new to Denmark. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening i Köbenhavn. 105: 31-47.
page(s): 43-46, figs. 9-10 [details] Available for editors

additional source Wilson, R.S.; Hutchings, P.A. and Glasby, C.J. (eds) 2003. List of Polychaete species introduced to Australia. Polychaetes: An Interactive Identification Guide. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne [details]

additional source Foster, Nancy. (1972). Freshwater polychaetes (Annelida) of North America. Biota of Freshwater Ecosystems. Identification Manual. 4: viii + 15., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.4023
page(s): 5, 7, figs. 2a, 3a-c [details] Available for editors

status source 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]