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Teredo navalis from Popular Science Monthly, September 1878 Removed from its burrow, the fully grown teredo ranges from several centimeters to about a meter in length, depending on the species. 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 ...
HMS Teredo was a British submarine of the third group of the T class. She was built as P338 at Vickers Armstrong , Barrow and launched on 27 April 1945. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Teredo , possibly after a mollusc, the shipworm , of that name.
Destruction by Teredo navalis worm in a tree branch Teredo navalis is a very destructive pest of submerged timber. In the Baltic Sea , pine trees can become riddled with tunnels within 16 weeks of being in the water and oaks within 32 weeks, with whole trees 30 cm (12 in) in diameter being completely destroyed within a year.
Teredo sparcki Roch, 1931 Teredora princesae is a species of marine bivalve mollusc in the family Teredinidae , the shipworms . This species lives in timber that is floating in the western Pacific Ocean .
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 .
Nototeredo; Nototeredo norvagica a) animal removed from its shelly tube: p,p : pallets; s) exhalant siphon s') inhalant siphon b,c) different aspects of the shell ...
There was disagreement among zoologists in the 18th century as to whether the creature which made one of these was a polychaete tube-worm or came from a mollusc. Linnaeus described the species in 1758. He considered that it was a serpulid worm and named it Serpula arenaria, a name which in 1767 he changed to Serpula polythalamia.
Thiosocius is a genus of bacteria that lives in symbiosis with the giant shipworm Kuphus polythalamius. It contains a single species, Thiosocius teredinicola, which was isolated from the gills of the shipworm. The specific name derives from the Latin terms teredo (shipworm) and incola (dweller).