Nototeredo

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
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Myida
Superfamily: Pholadoidea
Family: Teredinidae
Genus:
Gould, 1870
Species

See text.

Nototeredo is a genus of ship-worms, marine bivalve molluscs of the family Teredinidae.

Species in the genus Nototeredo

  • Nototeredo edax (Hedley, 1895)
  • Nototeredo knoxi (Bartsch, 1917) – foliaceous shipworm, knox shipworm
  • Nototeredo norvagica (Spengler, 1792) – Norway shipworm

References

  • "Nototeredo". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1


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