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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 .
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.
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 ...
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) Bankia neztalia (Turner and McKoy, 1979) Bankia setacea (Tryon, 1863) – feathery shipworm; Bankia sibirica Roch, 1934; Bankia zeteki Bartsch ...
Ruth Turner. 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 ...
The Shipworm service should, in turn, contributes to a newly retrieved transparency of the Internet." [15] To avoid confusion with computer worms, [16] Huitema later changed the protocol's name from Shipworm to Teredo, after the genus name of the shipworm Teredo navalis. [16]
Genus: Teredo. Species: T. portoricensis. Binomial name. Teredo portoricensis. W. Clapp, 1924. 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] [2]