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See text. Molluscs are animals belonging to the phylum Mollusca. There are around 250000 extant Species within the phylum with an estimated 70000 Bivalves are Molluscs belonging to the class Bivalvia. They have two-part shells and typically both valves are symmetrical along the hinge line Bivalves are Molluscs belonging to the class Bivalvia. They have two-part shells and typically both valves are symmetrical along the hinge line Myoida is an order of Bivalve Molluscs Classification Superfamily Anomalodesmacea Superfamily Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz, as he is known in Europe ( October 22 1783 - September 18 1840) was a nineteenth-century |
Shipworms are not worms at all, but rather a group of unusual saltwater clams with very reduced shells, notorious for boring into (and eventually destroying) wooden structures which are immersed in sea water, including piers, docks and wooden ships. Sometimes called "termites of the sea", they are marine bivalve molluscs (Eulamellibranchiata) in the family Teredinidae. Bivalves are Molluscs belonging to the class Bivalvia. They have two-part shells and typically both valves are symmetrical along the hinge line Molluscs are animals belonging to the phylum Mollusca. There are around 250000 extant Species within the phylum with an estimated 70000
When boring into submerged wood, bacteria in a special organ called the gland of Deshayes, allows them to digest cellulose. Gérard Paul Deshayes ( May 13, 1795 - June 9, 1875) was a French Geologist and Conchologist. Cellulose is an Organic compound with the formula, a Polysaccharide consisting of a linear chain of several hundred to over ten thousand β(1→4 The excavated burrow is usually lined with a calcareous tube.
The shipworms belong to several genera, of which Teredo is the most commonly mentioned. A genus (plural genera from Γένος Latin genus "descent family type gender" is a low-level Taxonomic The best known species is Teredo navalis. Historically, Teredo concentrations in the Caribbean Sea have been substantially higher than in most other salt water bodies. For the region see Caribbean. The Caribbean Sea (kəˈrɪbiən or /ˌkærɨˈbiːən/ is a tropical Sea in the Western Hemisphere
Shipworms have slender worm-like forms, but nonetheless possess the characteristic structures of bivalves. Bivalves are Molluscs belonging to the class Bivalvia. They have two-part shells and typically both valves are symmetrical along the hinge line The valves of the shell of shipworms are small separate parts located at the anterior end of the worm, used for excavating the burrow. Shipworms greatly damage wooden hulls and marine piling, and have been the subject of much study to find methods to avoid their attacks.
In the early 1800s, the behaviour and anatomy of the shipworm inspired the great British engineer Marc Brunel. An engineer is a person professionally engaged in a field of Engineering. Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, FRS ( 25 April 1769 &ndash 12 December 1849) was a French -born engineer who settled in the Based on his observations of how the shipworm's valves simultaneously enable it to tunnel through wood and protect it from being crushed by the swelling timber, Brunel designed an ingenious modular iron tunnelling framework - a tunnelling shield - which enabled workers to successfully tunnel through the highly unstable river bed beneath the Thames. A tunnelling shield is a protective structure used in the excavation of tunnels through soil that is too soft or fluid to remain stable during the time it takes to line the tunnel The Thames Tunnel was the first successful large tunnel ever built under a navigable river. The Thames Tunnel is an underwater tunnel built beneath the River Thames in London.
Genera within the family Teridinidae
- Bactronophorus
- Bankia Gray, 1842
- Dicyathifer
- Kuphus
- Lyrodus Binney, 1870
- Nausitoria Wright, 1884
- Neoteredo
- Nototeredo Bartsch, 1923
- Psiloteredo
- Spathoteredo Moll, 1928
- Teredo Linnaeus, 1758
- Teredora Bartsch, 1921
- Teredothyra Bartsch, 1921
- Uperotus
See also
References
- Teredinidae (TSN 81832). Carl Linnaeus (Latinized as Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as, May 23 new style (13 May old style 1707 who laid the foundations for The bug shoe is a length of iron bark on the bottom of a Ship that goes on the bottom of the Skeg to protect it from Shipworms Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Integrated Taxonomic Information System ( ITIS) is a partnership designed to provide consistent and reliable information on the Taxonomy of biological Species
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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