New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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Adventive occurrence of the fouling serpulid Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Polychaeta) in New Zealand

GEOFFREY B. READ

12 Oriel Place
Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand

DENNIS P. GORDON

New Zealand Oceanographic Institute DSIR Marine and Freshwater Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Private Bag, Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand

Abstract The exotic marine-fouling polychaete Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Fauvel) is recorded and described from New Zealand. Its sudden occurrence in New Zealand around 1967 was marked by its ecological prominence in estuaries of Whangarei and Auckland Harbours, as a nuisance species on submerged artificial structures including pleasure craft and power station intake pipes.

Keywords Polychaeta; Serpulidae; Spionidae; Bryozoa; Ficopomatus enigmaticus; Polydora cornuta; Conopeum seurati; estuarine; exotic; adventive; marine fouling; New Zealand; new record

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 1991, Vol. 25: 269-273 0028-8330/2503-0269 $2.50/0 © Crown copyright 1991
Received 25 January 1991; accepted 7 August 1991

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