WoRMS name details
Mercierella enigmatica Fauvel, 1923
155394 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:155394)
unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Species
Mercierella Fauvel, 1923 accepted as Ficopomatus Southern, 1921
marine, brackish, terrestrial
recent only
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. Mercierella enigmatica Fauvel, 1923. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=155394 on 2025-04-08
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Nomenclature
original description
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]
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]. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 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
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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]. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 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
[request]Taxonomy
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. [details]
Other
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]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Authority Not found in ZR (1923). ZR (1934) mentioned Mercierella enigmatica Fauvel (without brackets), but not as new to science. [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (21 publications)
To GenBank (182 nucleotides; 175 proteins)
To NHMUK collection (Mercierella enigmatica Fauvel, 1922; SYNTYPE(S); NHMUK:ecatalogue:3536316)
To NMNH Extant Collection (USNM 21126 Specimen-1)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (2 records)
To ITIS
To GenBank (182 nucleotides; 175 proteins)
To NHMUK collection (Mercierella enigmatica Fauvel, 1922; SYNTYPE(S); NHMUK:ecatalogue:3536316)
To NMNH Extant Collection (USNM 21126 Specimen-1)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (2 records)
To ITIS
