Shipworm

Bankia australis

• Group: Other

Despite the worm name this is a clam that bores into mangrove wood, lining its tunnel with shell as it eats its way through. It lives in the intertidal, turning timber into honeycombed galleries with its rasping valves.

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

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 527844.