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When shipworms bore into submerged wood, bacterial symbionts embedded within a sub-organ called the typhlosole in the shipworm gut, aid in the digestion of the wood particles ingested, [3] The Alteromonas or Alteromonas-sub-group of bacteria identified as the symbiont species in the typhlosole, are known to digest lignin, and wood material in ...
Teredo navalis, commonly called the naval shipworm or turu, [2] is a species of saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Teredinidae. This species is the type species of the genus Teredo .
The excavations within the wood are of varying lengths and diameters, and it appears to be the case that the whole of the life cycle of this species of shipworm takes place in mid-ocean, with larvae settling on the timber and reproducing there as the wood slowly drifts along on the current.
Teredo is a genus of highly modified saltwater clams which bore in wood and live within the tunnels they create. They are commonly known as "shipworms;" however, they are not worms, but marine bivalve molluscs (phylum Mollusca) in the taxonomic family Teredinidae. The type species is Teredo navalis.
The sample was gunmetal black, and very muscular. While other shipworms feed on submerged wood, K. polythalamius was found to use bacteria in its gills to use hydrogen sulphide in the water as an energy source used to convert carbon dioxide into nutrients. [8] [9] In this respect it resembles the unrelated giant tube worm, which actually is a worm.
Lithoredo is a genus of shipworm native to the Abatan River in the Philippines.It contains a single species, Lithoredo abatanica, described in June 2019. [1] The species is unusual because, unlike other shipworms which mainly bore into wood, it tunnels into and excretes limestone.
Shipworms (Teredolite) are wood-boring bivalves that burrow deeply into submerged wood. [7] Although piles attacked by shipworms may appear sound on the surface, they may be completely riddled with a maze of tunnels. [6] Shipworms can spread to new wood only when they are in the free-swimming larval stage. [8]
Teredo portoricensis, known commonly as the Puerto Rico shipworm, is a species of wood-boring clam or shipworm, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Teredinidae. [1 ...