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- polythalamius (known as giant tamilok) is a species of shipworm, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Teredinidae. The tube of Kuphus polythalamius...
- however, also applied to the largest living species of shipworm, Kuphus polythalamius, which despite the name "worm", is a bivalve mollusc rather than an...
- ICZN rules, the specific name became Kuphus polythalamius (Linnaeus, 1758). Fossils of Kuphus polythalamius have been found dating back to the Oligocene...
- of bacteria that lives in symbiosis with the giant shipworm Kuphus polythalamius. It contains a single species, Thiosocius teredinicola, which was isolated...