- The
shipworms, also
called Teredo worms or
simply Teredo (from
Ancient Gr**** τερηδών (terēdṓn) 'wood-worm', via
Latin terēdō), are
marine bivalve molluscs...
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unlike other shipworms which mainly bore into wood, it
tunnels into and
excretes limestone. It
lacks the ce****
which in
other shipworms holds symbiotic...
- wood and
spends the rest of its life as a tunneller. In
their gills,
shipworms house Teredinibacter turnerae, a
symbiotic bacterium which converts nitrogen...
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Sultan Kudarat in the Philippines.
Marine biologist Ruth
Turner studied shipworms and
considered that
their common ancestor would have been very like Kuphus...
- (bivalve), a
genus of
shipworms that
bores holes in the wood of
ships Teredo wood, a form of
fossilized wood
showing marks of
shipworm damage Coleophora teredo...
-
fresh water inhospitable to sal****er-loving
shipworms and
shipwrecks are
protected from the
ravages of
shipworms. The top of the wreck's
rudder is decorated...
-
various other living forms such as larvae, insects, millipedes, centipedes,
shipworms (teredo worms), or even some
vertebrates (creatures with a backbone) such...
- worms, earthworms, roundworms,
liver flukes, leeches, hagfishes, and
shipworms Mollusca,
including slugs, sea slugs, polychaetes, sea mice, priapulids...
-
infolding of only the
inner layer, and in many
earthworms it is absent. In
shipworms, the
typhlosole is the
organ where the
lignin in wood are
digested by...
- (2024). "First
report of
microbial symbionts in the
digestive system of
shipworms; wood
boring mollusks".
International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation...
