Species Teredo bartschi Clapp, 1923

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• Teredo bartschi Clapp, W.F. 1923. A new species of Teredo from Florida. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 37(2): 31-38, pls 3-4 [33, pls 3-4].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ 45301, Port Tampa, Florida.
• Teredo balatro Iredale, T. 1932. Cobra or shipworms: a systematic account of the teredinid mollusca of Port Jackson. 24-40, pls 1-4 in Destruction of timber by marine organisms in the port of Sydney. Sydney : Sydney Harbour Trust. [31, pl. 2, figs 4-7].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.325699 (in Oregon Pine (Pseudotsuga douglasii)), Pyrmont, Port jackson (stn 9), New South Wales, Australia [33°52'30"S 151°11'42"E].
• Teredo shawi Iredale, T. 1932. Cobra or shipworms: a systematic account of the teredinid mollusca of Port Jackson. 24-40, pls 1-4 in Destruction of timber by marine organisms in the port of Sydney. Sydney : Sydney Harbour Trust. [30, pl. 1, figs 5-8].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.105661, Roseville Bridge, Middle Harbour, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia [33°46'30"S 151°12'7.2"E].
• Teredo aegyptia Roch, F. & Moll, F. 1935. Über einige neue Teredinidenarten. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien 144(5-6): 263-279 [267, pl. 1, fig. 5].
• Teredo fragilis Tate 1888.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Turner, R.D. 1971. Identification of wood boring mollusks. pp. 17-64 in Jones, E.B.G. & Eltringham, S.K. (eds). Marine Fungi and Fouling Organisms of Wood. Paris : Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. [29] (lists eight synonyms)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Worldwide in tropical and subtropical seas

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, wood-borer.

 

General References

Coan, E.V. & Valentich-Scott, P. 2012. Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History 2 vols. pp.1258.

Gofas, S. 2004. Teredo bartschi. In: MolluscaBase (2017). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141605 (Accessed on 2017-06-08)

Hoagland, K. 1986. Effects of temperature, salinity, and substratum on larvae of the shipworms Teredo bartschi Clapp and T. navalis Linnaeus(Bivalvia: Teredinidae). American Malacological Bulletin 4(11): 89-99

Huber, M. 2010. Compendium of Bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [27]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [204]

Marshall, J.V. & Turner, R.D. 1974. Survey of marine borers 1970-1972. The family Teredinidae in Australian waters. CSIRO, University of NSW pp. 1-158. [fig. 13]

Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [206]

Turner, R.D. 1966. A Survey and Illustrated Catalogue of the Teredinidae. Cambridge : Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 265 pp. [90] (states that T. fragilis Tate might be a synonym, but later (Turner, 1971:pl. 4) depicts the distribution of the T. fragis. The latter judgement is followed herein)

Turner, R.D. 1971. Identification of wood boring mollusks. pp. 17-64 in Jones, E.B.G. & Eltringham, S.K. (eds). Marine Fungi and Fouling Organisms of Wood. Paris : Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. [29]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Aug-2023	BIVALVIA	22-Aug-2023	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
22-Aug-2023	BIVALVIA	22-Aug-2023	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
11-Aug-2014		11-Aug-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	MYIDA	21-Oct-2013	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
		11-Mar-2011	MODIFIED