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''Nototeredo'' is a genus of
ship-worm The shipworms, also called teredo worms or simply teredo (, via Latin ), are marine life, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Teredinidae, a group of saltwater clams with long, soft, naked bodies. They are notorious for boring into (and commo ...
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bivalve Bivalvia () or bivalves, in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class (biology), class of aquatic animal, aquatic molluscs (marine and freshwater) that have laterally compressed soft bodies enclosed b ...
mollusc Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...
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Teredinidae The shipworms, also called teredo worms or simply teredo (, via Latin ), are marine bivalve molluscs in the family Teredinidae, a group of saltwater clams with long, soft, naked bodies. They are notorious for boring into (and commonly eventual ...
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Species in the genus ''Nototeredo''

* '' Nototeredo edax'' (Hedley, 1895) * ''
Nototeredo knoxi ''Nototeredo'' is a genus of ship-worms, marine bivalve molluscs of the family Teredinidae. Species in the genus ''Nototeredo'' * '' Nototeredo edax'' (Hedley, 1895) * '' Nototeredo knoxi'' (Bartsch, 1917) – foliaceous shipworm, knox ship ...
'' (Bartsch, 1917) – foliaceous shipworm, knox shipworm * '' Nototeredo norvagica'' (
Spengler Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler (29 May 1880 – 8 May 1936) was a German polymath whose areas of interest included history, philosophy, mathematics, science, and art, as well as their relation to his organic theory of history. He is best kno ...
, 1792)
– Norway shipworm


References

* * Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 Teredinidae Bivalve genera {{bivalve-stub