APHOTOMARINE

An Educational Photographic Resource and Stock Image Library
of the Sea, Maritime Environment, Marine and Rockpool Life in the
Coastal Waters of South-West England by David Fenwick.

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Bankia gouldi
A Shipworm
- pallets / paddles in-situ 1

Bankia gouldi
A Shipworm
- pallets / paddles pair 1

Bankia gouldi
A Shipworm
- pallets / paddles with scale 1

Images of species taken at Sennen Cove, Penwith, Cornwall. 15.12.11. SW 35630 26665.

Scientific and European Names:
Bankia gouldi, Bankia, Shipworm, Teredinidae.

The species was found on and within a short piece of sleeper type timber. The timber also contained the shipworms Teredora malleolus and Nototeredo norvagica; and also two, one male and one female Planes minutus, known as Columbus crabs. The timber had obviously drifted across the Atlantic from the Western Atlantic or Caribbean Sea.

There are currently 11 species of shipworms that have been found in the UK, some are considered native, some are not. I say currently because there's always the chance of finding something new on wood that has floated around the Atlantic for some time.

Species found in the UK -
Lyrodus bipartitus
Lyrodus pedicellatus
Psiloteredo megotara
= Teredo navalis
Teredora malleolus
Teredothyra excavata
Bankia bipennata
Bankia fimbriatula
Bankia gouldi
Nausitora fusticula
Nototeredo norvagica
Spathoteredo spatha

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