Ficopomatus enigmaticus Records from Bristol Channel and South Wales, 2010-2011

Bristol Channel and South Wales records of the invasive tube-building polychaete worm Ficopomatus enigmaticus. The dataset describes laboratory protocols developed for maintaining broodstock, spawning, larval culture, and settlement bioassays. The data was aggregated by the Government Digital Service from the eu_open_data platform.

Use Cases

• Modeling invasive species spread based on geographic records from the Bristol Channel and South Wales.
• Developing aquaculture or bioassay protocols based on described methods for broodstock maintenance and larval culture.
• Studying fouling organism biology based on the focus on the euryhaline, tube-building polychaete Ficopomatus enigmaticus.

Strengths

• Focus on a specific invasive species, Ficopomatus enigmaticus, with a defined subtropical to temperate distribution.
• Includes geographic scope for records: the Bristol Channel and South Wales.
• Describes developed laboratory protocols for multiple stages of organism life cycle.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service (via eu_open_data platform).

Collection Method

Likely contains records from a field study, combined with descriptions of laboratory protocol development.

Time Range

2010-2011

Freshness

Data covers records from 2010-2011; last update is unknown.

Geography

Bristol Channel and South Wales.