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An average adult shipworm measures 4 to 6 inches (10 to 15 cm) in length and less than one-quarter inch (6.4 mm) in diameter, but some species grow to considerable size. [ 2 ] The body is cylindrical, slender, naked, and superficially vermiform (worm-shaped). In spite of their slender, worm-like forms, shipworms possess the characteristic ...
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 tube of Kuphus polythalamius is known as a crypt and is a calcareous secretion designed to enable the animal to live in its preferred habitat, the mud of mangrove swamps. A typical specimen measures 100 cm (40 in) in length and is shaped like a truncated elephant's tusk. The wider, anterior end is closed, has a rounded tip, and is about 110 ...
Teredo (Zopoteredo) Bartsch, 1923. Zopoteredo. 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.
Ruth Dixon Turner (1914 – April 30, 2000) was a pioneering U.S. marine biologist and malacologist. She was the world's expert on Teredinidae or shipworms, a taxonomic family of wood-boring bivalve mollusks which severely damage wooden marine installations. Turner held the Alexander Agassiz Professorship at Harvard University, and was a ...
Kuphus is a genus of shipworms, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Teredinidae. While there are four extinct species in the genus, [ 2] the only extant species is Kuphus polythalamius (also incorrectly spelled as Kuphus polythalamia ). [ 3][ 4] It is the longest bivalve mollusc in the world, where the only known permanent natural habitat is ...
Copper sheathing. Copper sheathing is a method for protecting the hull of a wooden vessel from attack by shipworm, barnacles and other marine growth through the use of copper plates affixed to the surface of the hull, below the waterline. It was pioneered and developed by the Royal Navy during the 18th century.
Bankia carinata (J. E. Gray, 1827) – carinate shipworm; Bankia cieba Clench and Turner, 1946; Bankia destructa Clench and Turner, 1946; Bankia fimbriatula Moll and Roch, 1931 – fimbriate shipworm; Bankia fosteri Clench and Turner, 1946; Bankia gouldi (Bartsch, 1908) – cupped shipworm, gould shipworm; Bankia martensi (Stempell, 1899)