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TEREDINIDAE [4 records]

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Record 1 2011-05-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
DEF

An ... elongated marine [clam] ... that [resembles] a worm, [burrows] in submerged wood, and [is] very destructive to piles of wharves or wooden ships.

OBS

Shipworms are mostly of the family Teredinidae.

OBS

shipworms : also used to refer to the family Teredinidae.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
DEF

Mollusque bivalve, au corps allongé comme un ver, qui dévore le bois immergé aussi bien dans l'eau douce que salée, affaiblissant ainsi les structures dans lesquelles il se loge.

OBS

La plupart des tarets appartiennent à la famille des Teredinidae.

OBS

tarets : peut aussi désigner la famille des Teredinidae.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Moluscos, equinodermos y procordados
DEF

Molusco lamelibranquio marino de aspecto vermiforme, con sifones desmesuradamente largos y concha muy pequeña, que deja descubierta la mayor parte del cuerpo. Las valvas de la concha, funcionando como mandíbulas, perforan las maderas sumergidas, practican en ellas galerías que el propio animal reviste de una materia calcárea segregada por el manto, y causan así graves daños en las construcciones navales.

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Record 2 2010-08-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
Universal entry(ies)
Teredinidae
Latin
CONT

Shipworms are the most destructive of mollusks, and the damage they have done to wooden structures - ships and wharf piling - over the centuries is incalculable.

OBS

A family of bivalve mollusks.

Key term(s)
  • ship worms

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Teredinidae
Latin
OBS

Famille de mollusques bivalves dont la plupart des individus creusent des galeries dans le bois des navires et des quais et y causent de sérieux dommages.

Spanish

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Record 3 1987-08-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
DEF

a genus of mollusks that contains the typical shipworms and is type of a family Teredinidae.

OBS

Gr. Webster, p. 2358.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
OBS

nom génétique du taret Gr. Larousse, p. 250 vol. 10. Taret : mollusque bivalve, perforant les bois immergés (type de la famille des térénidés).

OBS

Grand Larousse, p. 175.

Spanish

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Record 4 1977-07-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[Bivalves of the family Teredinidae have] shells greatly reduced, covering only [the] anterior tip of [a] long wormlike animal(...) [The] burrow usually(...) [has a] calcareous lining which varies greatly in thickness and is in some species divided or has septa at [the] distal end. [The] valves [are] divided into three parts(...). Condyles(...), [an] umbonal-ventral ridge and apophyses [are] prominent. [A] chondrophore and [a] small internal ligament [are] present. Siphons [are] separate or united, relatively short and with [a] pair of pallets inserted at [the] base which serve to close [the] end of [the] burrow when [the] siphons are withdrawn.(...) "? Cret., Paleoc.-Rec. ".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Les Lamellibranches de la famille des Teredinidae ont une] coquille de petite taille par rapport à l'animal, globuleuse, bâillante en avant et en arrière; [ils n'ont] pas de plaques accessoires, pas de dents; [ils ont] un ligament interne; un tube adventif long, droit ou courbé.

Spanish

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