WoRMS taxon details
Psiloteredo megotara (Hanley in Forbes & Hanley, 1848)
AphiaID: 141602
AphiaID: 141602
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Myoida (Order) > Pholadoidea (Superfamily) > Teredinidae (Family) > Teredininae (Subfamily) > Psiloteredo (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Psiloteredo Bartsch, 1922 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Teredo denticulata Fischer, 1856 (synonym) Teredo dilatata Stimpson, 1851 (synonym) Teredo megotara Hanley in Forbes & Hanley, 1848 (original binomen) Teredo megotara var. excisa Jeffreys, 1865 (synonym) Teredo megotara var. mionota Jeffreys, 1865 (synonym) Teredo megotara var. striator Jeffreys, 1865 (synonym) Teredo subericola Jeffreys, 1860 (non MacGillivray, 1845) Teredo subericola var. minor Jeffreys, 1860 (synonym) | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Forbes E. & Hanley S.C. (1848-1853). A history of British Mollusca and their shells. London, van Voorst : Vol. 1: I-. LXXX (1853) 1-486 (1848). Vol. 2: 1-480 (1 dec. 1849) 481-557 (1850). Vol. 3: 1-320 (1850) 321-616 (1851). Vol. 4: 1-300 (1852). Introduction I-LXXX [1853], available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/ConsultationTout.exe?E=0&O=N099079 80 81 82 83 [details] basis of record: Turner, R. D. 1966. A Survey and Illustrated Catalogue of Teredinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Cambridge (Massachusetts): Museum of Comparative Zoology. ix, 265 pp. page(s): 110 [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: Check List of European Marine Mollusca (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux (not certain) [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) To CLEMAM To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To Marine Bivalves of the British Isles webpage at National Museum of Wales To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
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] Distribution: western slope of Newfoundland, including the southern part of the Strait of Belle Isle but excluding the upper 50m in the area southwest of Newfoundland; Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway) [details] Spelling: Psiloteredo megotara [details] Spelling: In Müller (2004) as Psiloteredo megotera [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141602 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Psiloteredo megotara (Hanley in Forbes & Hanley, 1848). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141602 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||||||||
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