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.

Shipworms - General Images - habitat, tubes etc. (Marine Bivalve Images)
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Shipworms
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Shipworms
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Shipworms
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- habitat / petrified timber 1

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Shipworms
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Images taken on a low spring tide south-west of Chyandour Rocks, Penzance, Cornwall. 31.08.11. Species featured is one of the common and more variable species Nototeredo (norvegica) norvagica, the Norway Shipworm.

The fossilised timber in which the shipworms are found looks to be part of an ancient lake bed. Hazelnuts and Alder have been identified from this area, which largely consists of peat into which branches and tree bows have fallen.

Shipworms are notoriously difficult to identify and almost impossible to identify with any surity in the field. Also, many species of shipworm can be found together within a single colony, which is why the images have been placed in this 'general' section.

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

Scientific and European Names:
Teredinidae, Shipworms, Paalwormen, Skeppsmaskar.

 

Shipworms General Images habitat tubes Teredinidae
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