Indo-Pacific Shipworm

Lyrodus medilobatus

• Group: Other

A wood boring shipworm of intertidal mangroves, this is a clam whose long worm like body tunnels through submerged timber. It rasps wood with the small paired shells at its head, leaving the wood riddled with burrows.

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

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 397096.