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    Teredo navalis, commonly called the naval shipworm or turu, is a species of saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Teredinidae. This species...
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    is lost because the animal spends all its life surrounded by wood. Teredo navalis develops from eggs to metamorphosing larvae in about five weeks. They...
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    is Teredo navalis. The tunneling habit of species in the genus inspired the name of the Teredo network tunneling protocol. The submarine HMS Teredo may...
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  • name from Shipworm to Teredo, after the genus name of the shipworm Teredo navalis. Sharma, Vishal; Kumar, Rajesh (2017). "Teredo tunneling-based secure...
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    found the inspiration for his tunnelling shield from the shipworm, Teredo navalis, which has its head protected by a hard shell whilst it bores through...
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    of the Baltic because, he reasoned, they were free from the shipworm Teredo navalis, which usually destroys submerged wood rapidly in warmer, saltier seas...
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    done to these wood constructions with the arrival of the shipworm (Teredo navalis), a bivalve thought to have been brought to the Netherlands by VOC trading...
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    timber/lumber: Woodboring beetles Marine borers (Barnea similis) Teredos (Teredo navalis) Termites Carpenter ants Carpenter bees There are two main natural...
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    of the Kerch Strait. Several Sea of Azov mollusks, such as shipworm (Teredo navalis), soft-shell clam (Mya arernaria), Mediterranean mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis)...
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  • –1767) was a German academic and translator. He is known for his work on Teredo navalis. and to be one of the three original initiators of an encyclopedia project...
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    Teredo navalis is a mollusc that eats the wood of ships' hulls....
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    organic activity than freshwater, and in particular, the shipworm, Teredo navalis, lives only in salt water, so some of the best preservation in the absence...
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    geographical distribution and the growth of the wood-boring molluscs Teredo navalis L., Psiloteredo megotara (Hanley) and Xylophaga dorsalis (Turton) on...
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    boomerangs to frighten them into carefully positioned nets. The teredo worm (Teredo navalis) was attained by the deliberate felling of Swamp Oaks (Casuarina...
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    incur debt. The timber bridge quickly succumbed to marine wood worm Teredo Navalis and began to progressively collapse. The council wasn't able to fully...
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  • 1975 Comparative larval development of the shipworms Bankia gouldi and Teredo navalis. Marine Biology 29: 245–251. 1975 Nitrogen fixation in marine shipworms...
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  • Myxine (hagfishes) Myxine glutinosa – Atlantic hagfish Teredo (shipworms) Teredo lapidaria Teredo navalis – naval shipworm Limax (terrestrial slugs) Limax ater...
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    costing £14,997 to build. The jarrah piles soon began to be attacked by Teredo navalis shipworms, and in 1910, more than 30 of the piles had been replaced...
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  • Salmo trutta brown trout Actinopterygii Salmoniformes Salmonidae Fish Teredo navalis naval shipworm Bivalvia Myoida Teredinidae Mollusc Tilapia mariae spotted...
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    designed to protect the piles from the attacks of a marine insect called teredo navalis or cobra. A similar method was used on a bridge over the Logan River...
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    of 50%, high resistance to maritime ship borers, such as shipworms (Teredo navalis), is achieved. Furfurylated wood, holding the Scandinavian ecological...
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    and brackish waters of the Baltic Sea are free from the "shipworm" Teredo navalis, which rapidly destroys submerged wood in most other seas. This means...
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    casina Linnaeus, 1758 Corbulidae Corbula gibba (Olivi, 1792) Teredinidae Teredo navalis (Linnaeus, 1758) Gastrochaenidae Gastrochaena dubia (Pennant, 1777)...
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  • slipping and maintenance, compounded by the infestation and attack by Teredo navalis, the marine shipworm, that attached to and bored holes in the vessel's...
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    the danger of collapse. The cyclone of 1897 and being eaten away by teredo navalis, a salt water clam also known as the naval shipworm, eventually caused...
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    organic activity than freshwater, and in particular, the shipworm, teredo navalis, lives only in salt water, so some of the best preservation in the absence...
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    philosophical magazine and journal of science. 5: 298 online. 1835 on the Teredo navalis and Limnoria terebrans, as at present existing in certain localities...
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    required Muntz metal sheaths for the timber piles to prevent attack by Teredo navalis shipworms. William Weaver, the Engineer-in-Chief to Auckland Province...
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    which were firmly embedded in silt and heavily damaged by the shipworm Teredo navalis. It was found that these ships could only be removed by the use of explosives...
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    above the zetgang, these were found to be infested with shipworms (Teredo Navalis). They were 3 cm in diameter and 50–70 cm long. Two species were sent...
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