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.

Basket shells (Family Corbulidae)

Corbula
Corbula gibba (Olivi, 1792) - Basket shell

Gapers or Softshell clams (Family Myidae)

Mya
Mya arenaria Linnaeus, 1758
- Sand gaper, Old maid or Softshell clam
Mya truncata Linnaeus, 1758 - Blunt gaper

Sphenia
Sphenia binghami Turton, 1822 - Small gaper

Piddocks (Family Pholadidae)

Barnea
Barnea candida (Linnaeus, 1758) - White piddock
Barnea parva (Pennant, 1777) - Little piddock

Pholadidea
Pholadidea loscombiana Turton, 1819 - Paper piddock

Pholas
Pholas dactylus (Linnaeus, 1758) - Common piddock

Zirfaea
Zirfaea crispata (Linnaeus, 1758) - Oval or Great piddock

Subfamily Martesiinae

Martesia
Martesia striata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Subfamily Xylophaginae

Xylophaga
Xylophaga dorsalis (Turton, 1819) - Wood piddock

Shipworms (Family Teredinidae)

Bankia
Bankia bipennata (Turton, 1819) - A Shipworm
Bankia fimbriatula Moll & Roch, 1931 - A Shipworm
Bankia gouldi (Bartsch, 1908) - A Shipworm

Nototeredo
Nototeredo norvagica (Spengler, 1792) - Norway shipworm

Psiloteredo
Psiloteredo megotara (Hanley in Forbes & Hanley, 1848)
- Big-ear or Drifting shipworm

Teredora
Teredora malleolus (Turton, 1822) - A Shipworm

Shipworms - General Images - habitat, tubes etc.

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