Deep-Cleft Shipworm

Teredo furcifera

• Group: Other

Despite the name this is not a worm but a clam, one that bores into submerged wood with rasping shells. Living its whole life inside the tunnels it carves, it feeds on the wood it grinds away and on plankton drawn through its siphons.

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

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 397193.