WoRMS taxon details

Psiloteredo megotara (Hanley, 1848)

141602  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141602)

accepted
Species
Teredo denticulata Fischer, 1856 · unaccepted (synonym)
Teredo dilatata W. Stimpson, 1851 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Teredo megotara Hanley, 1848 · unaccepted (original binomen)
Teredo subericola Jeffreys, 1860 · unaccepted (non MacGillivray, 1845)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Teredo megotara Hanley, 1848) Forbes, E. & Hanley, S. C. (1848-1853). A history of British Mollusca and their shells. Vol. 1: i-lxxx [1853], 1-486 [1848], pl. A-W, AA-ZZ, AAA-ZZZ [dates uncertain]; Vol. 2: 1-480 [1 dec. 1849], 481-557 [1850]; Vol. 3: 1-320 [1850], 321-616 [1851]; Vol. 4: 1-300 [1852], pl. 1-114F [dates uncertain]. London, van Voorst. <em>London, van Voorst.</em> 1:1-486., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/16341
page(s): vol. 1 p. 77; pl. 1 fig 6; pl. 18 fig. 1-2 [details]   
Distribution Cold temperate to polar. NW Atlantic: rare in coastal waters below 47◦ N latitude, common on continental shelf and in the...  
Distribution Cold temperate to polar. NW Atlantic: rare in coastal waters below 47◦ N latitude, common on continental shelf and in the Gulf Stream. NE Atlantic: common in Norwegian coastal waters and the Norwegian current north to Barents Sea (Svalbard); less frequent in coastal waters south of Norway [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Psiloteredo megotara (Hanley, 1848). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141602 on 2024-03-19
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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original description  (of Teredo denticulata Fischer, 1856) Fischer, P. (1856). Liste monographique des espèces du genre Taret. <em>Journal de Conchyliologie.</em> 5: 129-240., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15862188 [details]   

original description  (of Teredo dilatata W. Stimpson, 1851) Stimpson, W. (1851). On several new species of shells from the northern coast of New England. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 4: 113-114., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8870823
page(s): 113 [details]   

original description  (of Teredo megotara Hanley, 1848) Forbes, E. & Hanley, S. C. (1848-1853). A history of British Mollusca and their shells. Vol. 1: i-lxxx [1853], 1-486 [1848], pl. A-W, AA-ZZ, AAA-ZZZ [dates uncertain]; Vol. 2: 1-480 [1 dec. 1849], 481-557 [1850]; Vol. 3: 1-320 [1850], 321-616 [1851]; Vol. 4: 1-300 [1852], pl. 1-114F [dates uncertain]. London, van Voorst. <em>London, van Voorst.</em> 1:1-486., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/16341
page(s): vol. 1 p. 77; pl. 1 fig 6; pl. 18 fig. 1-2 [details]   

original description  (of Teredo megotara var. excisa Jeffreys, 1865) Jeffreys, J. G. (1862-1869). <i>British conchology</i>. Vol. 1: pp. cxiv + 341 [1862]. Vol. 2: pp. 479 [1864]. Vol. 3: pp. 394 [1865]. Vol. 4: pp. 487 [1867]. Vol. 5: pp. 259 [1869]. London, van Voorst. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55187
page(s): 177 [details]   

original description  (of Teredo subericola Jeffreys, 1860) Jeffreys, J. G. (1860). A synoptical list of the British species of <i>Teredo</i> with a notice of the exotic species. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 3(6): 121-127., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22218533
page(s): 122 [details]   

original description  (of Teredo subericola var. minor Jeffreys, 1860) Jeffreys, J. G. (1860). A synoptical list of the British species of <i>Teredo</i> with a notice of the exotic species. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 3(6): 121-127., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22218533 [details]   

original description  (of Teredo megotara var. mionota Jeffreys, 1865) Jeffreys, J. G. (1862-1869). <i>British conchology</i>. Vol. 1: pp. cxiv + 341 [1862]. Vol. 2: pp. 479 [1864]. Vol. 3: pp. 394 [1865]. Vol. 4: pp. 487 [1867]. Vol. 5: pp. 259 [1869]. London, van Voorst. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55187
page(s): 177 [details]   

original description  (of Teredo megotara var. striatior Jeffreys, 1865) Jeffreys, J. G. (1862-1869). <i>British conchology</i>. Vol. 1: pp. cxiv + 341 [1862]. Vol. 2: pp. 479 [1864]. Vol. 3: pp. 394 [1865]. Vol. 4: pp. 487 [1867]. Vol. 5: pp. 259 [1869]. London, van Voorst. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55187
page(s): 177 [details]   

context source (Introduced species) Katsanevakis, S.; Bogucarskis, K.; Gatto, F.; Vandekerkhove, J.; Deriu, I.; Cardoso A.S. (2012). Building the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN): a novel approach for the exploration of distributed alien species data. <em>BioInvasions Records.</em> 1: 235-245., available online at http://easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

basis of record Turner, R. D. (1966). <i>A survey and illustrated catalogue of Teredinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia)</i>. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge (Massachusetts). ix + 265 pp. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/134382
page(s): 110 [details]   

basis of record Borges, L. M.; Treneman, N. C.; Haga, T.; Shipway, J. R.; Raupach, M. J.; Altermark, B.; Carlton, J. T. (2022 [published online 2021]). Out of taxonomic crypsis: A new trans-arctic cryptic species pair corroborated by phylogenetics and molecular evidence. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 166: 107312., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107312
page(s): fig. 1G [details]   

additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Distribution Cold temperate to polar. NW Atlantic: rare in coastal waters below 47◦ N latitude, common on continental shelf and in the Gulf Stream. NE Atlantic: common in Norwegian coastal waters and the Norwegian current north to Barents Sea (Svalbard); less frequent in coastal waters south of Norway [details]

From regional or thematic species database
Introduced species vector dispersal in Belgian part of the North Sea : Shipping [details]

From other sources
Alien species Although both its name and shape reminds us of a worm, the shipworm Psiloteredo megotara is a bivalve mollusc. This species drills tunnels in wood and has dispersed very early, hitchhiking in the hulls of wooden ships and driftwood. Its early spread makes it hard to determine where this species originally occurred. It's possible that this species always occurred in Belgian waters but was previously not discovered. Scientist call such species cryptogenic. Psiloteredo megotara is known to occur in Belgian waters since before 1600.
Shipworms have troubled sailors for centuries, because they affect the wood of ships. [details]

Spelling Psiloteredo megotara [details]
LanguageName 
Danish skibspæleorm  [details]
Dutch scheepsworm  [details]
English drifting shipworm [from synonym]big-ear shipworm  [details]
French petit taret  [details]
German Schwebende Schiffsbohrmuschel [from synonym]Schiffsbohrwurm [from synonym]  [details]