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TEREDINIDAE [2 records]

Record 1 2010-08-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
Universal entry(ies)
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)
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 2 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with [a] pair of pallets inserted at [the] base which serve to close [the] end of [the] burrow when [the] siphons are withdrawn.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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