ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2019
A rock-boring and rock-ingesting freshwater bivalve (shipworm) from the Philippines.
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- Reproduction on the Rocks: Life History of a Freshwater Macrobioeroding Bivalve.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Cosmopolitan no more: Phylogenetics and reproductive mode reveal a global species complex in a marine mollusk (Teredinidae).PloS one · 2026Article
- Convergence and contingency in the evolution of a specialized mode of life: multiple origins and high disparity of rock-boring bivalves.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Contrasting modes of mitochondrial genome evolution in sister taxa of wood-eating marine bivalves (Teredinidae and Xylophagaidae).Genome biology and evolution · 2022Article
- How Do Shipworms Eat Wood? Screening Shipworm Gill Symbiont Genomes for Lignin-Modifying Enzymes.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- Mate competition during pseudocopulation in shipworms.Biology letters · 2020Article
- Diverse interactions and ecosystem engineering can stabilize community assembly.Nature communications · 2020Article
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Abstract
Shipworms are a group of wood-boring and wood-feeding bivalves of extraordinary economic, ecological and historical importance. Known in the literature since the fourth century BC, shipworms are both destructive pests and critical providers of ecosystem services. All previously described shipworms are obligate wood-borers, completing all or part of their life cycle in wood and most are thought to use wood as a primary source of nutrition. Here, we report and describe a new anatomically and morphologically divergent species of shipworm that bores in carbonate limestone rather than in woody substrates and lacks adaptations associated with wood-boring and wood digestion. The species is highly unusual in that it bores by ingesting rock and is among the very few known freshwater rock-boring macrobioeroders. The calcareous burrow linings of this species resemble fossil borings normally associated with bivalve bioerosion of wood substrates (ichnospecies Teredolites longissimus) in marginal and fully marine settings. The occurrence of this newly recognized shipworm in a lithic substrate has implications for teredinid phylogeny and evolution, and interpreting palaeoenvironmental conditions based on fossil bioerosion features.
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