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Common Name: Bartsch shipworm
Taxonomy: available through 
Size: can reach 10 mm
Native Range: South Carolina to Texas and Bermuda.
Nonindigenous Occurrences: Long Island Sound off
Means of Introduction:
Status:
Impact of Introduction: Can cause destroy of untreated wooden structures (docks, boats).
Remarks:
Found in marine coastal areas, living in wood; tolerates wide range of salinities.
Shell valve located at front end of worm-like body; entire animal can be several inches long; pelagic larvae; veliger stage reached in 24 hours and lasts 3-4 weeks.
Adapted for boring into wood; established in warmwater effluents of power plants; collected in Hawaii and Gulf of California; cannot distinguish the 66 species of shipworms worldwide by the shells, other structures must be used for identification; size usually indicates age.
Image is Teredo species.
References
Other Resources:
Teredo spp. (ANS Clearinghouse Bibliography)
Author: Amy Benson
Revision Date: 12/8/2004 Citation for this information:
Amy Benson. 2009. Teredo bartschi. USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, Gainesville, FL.
<http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.asp?speciesID=138> Revision Date: 12/8/2004
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