- The
shipworms, also
called Teredo worms or
simply Teredo (from
Ancient Gr**** τερηδών (terēdṓn) 'wood-worm', via
Latin terēdō), are
marine bivalve molluscs...
-
Sultan Kudarat in the Philippines.
Marine biologist Ruth
Turner studied shipworms and
considered that
their common ancestor would have been very like Kuphus...
- 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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various other living forms such as larvae, insects, millipedes, centipedes,
shipworms (teredo worms), or even some
vertebrates (creatures with a backbone) such...
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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...
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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...
- 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...
- (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...
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through wood.
Shipworms have been
responsible for the loss of many
wooden hulls.
Christian ****tema, in the
original draft,
noted that the
shipworm "only survives...
- surfaces. Some bivalves, such as the
scallops and file s****, can swim.
Shipworms bore into wood, clay, or
stone and live
inside these substances. The s****...
