Furrow Shipworm

Lyrodus bipartitus

• Group: Other

A shipworm that bores into the wood of mangrove roots, it is a clam whose tiny shells work as drilling tools at the tip of a long, soft body. It digests the wood it tunnels through, turning submerged roots into a maze of lined burrows.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Bivalvia › Myida › Teredinidae › Lyrodus

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 196599.