Editing Shipworm (section)

== Taxonomy ==

Shipworms are marine animals in the phylum [[Mollusca]], [[Order (biology)|order]] [[Bivalvia]], [[Family (biology)|family]] '''Teredinidae'''. They were included in the now obsolete order ''Eulamellibranchiata'',<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Ponder |editor1-first=Winston F. |editor2-last=Lindberg |editor2-first=David R. |title=Phylogeny and Evolution of the Mollusca |publisher=University of California Press |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-520-25092-5 }}</ref> in which many documents still place them.

[[Ruth Turner]] of [[Harvard University]] was the leading 20th century expert on the Teredinidae; she published a detailed monograph on the family, the 1966 volume ''A Survey and Illustrated Catalogue of the Teredinidae'' published by the [[Museum of Comparative Zoology]]. More recently, the [[endosymbiont]]s that are found in the gills have been subject to study the [[bioconversion]] of cellulose for fuel energy research.<ref name=PMID19568419>{{cite journal|last1=Yang|first1=JC|last2=Madupu|first2=R|last3=Durkin|first3=AS|last4=Ekborg|first4=NA|last5=Pedamallu|first5=CS|last6=Hostetler|first6=JB|last7=Radune|first7=D|last8=Toms|first8=BS|last9=Henrissat|first9=B|last10=Coutinho|first10=PM|last11=Schwarz|first11=S|last12=Field|first12=L|last13=Trindade-Silva|first13=AE|last14=Soares|first14=CA|last15=Elshahawi|first15=S|last16=Hanora|first16=A|last17=Schmidt|first17=EW|last18=Haygood|first18=MG|last19=Posfai|first19=J|last20=Benner|first20=J|last21=Madinger|first21=C|last22=Nove|first22=J|last23=Anton|first23=B|last24=Chaudhary|first24=K|last25=Foster|first25=J|last26=Holman|first26=A|last27=Kumar|first27=S|last28=Lessard|first28=PA|last29=Luyten|first29=YA|last30=Slatko|first30=B|last31=Wood|first31=N|last32=Wu|first32=B|last33=Teplitski|first33=M|last34=Mougous|first34=JD|last35=Ward|first35=N|last36=Eisen|first36=JA|last37=Badger|first37=JH|last38=Distel|first38=DL|title=The complete genome of Teredinibacter turnerae T7901: an intracellular endosymbiont of marine wood-boring bivalves (shipworms)|journal=PLOS ONE|date=Jul 1, 2009|volume=4|issue=7|pages=e6085|pmid=19568419|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0006085|pmc=2699552|bibcode=2009PLoSO...4.6085Y|doi-access=free}}</ref>

Shipworm species comprise several [[genus|genera]], of which ''[[Teredo (bivalve)|Teredo]]'' is the most commonly mentioned. The best known species is ''[[Teredo navalis]]''.  Historically, ''Teredo'' concentrations in the [[Caribbean Sea]] have been substantially higher than in most other salt water bodies.

Genera within the family Teridinidae include:<ref>{{cite WoRMS |last=Bouchet |first=P. |year=2015|title=Teredinidae Rafinesque, 1815|id=253|accessdate=2015-02-14}}</ref>

* ''[[Bactronophorus]]'' Tapparone-Canefri, 1877
* ''[[Bankia (bivalve)|Bankia]]'' Gray, 1842
* ''[[Dicyathifer]]'' Iredale, 1932
* ''[[Kuphus]]'' Guettard, 1770
* ''[[Lithoredo]]'' Shipway, Distel & Rosenberg, 2019
* ''[[Lyrodus]]'' Binney, 1870
* ''[[Nausitoria]]'' Wright, 1884
* ''[[Neoteredo]]'' Bartsch, 1920
* ''[[Nototeredo]]'' Bartsch, 1923
* ''[[Psiloteredo]]'' Bartsch, 1922
* ''[[Spathoteredo]]'' Moll, 1928
* ''[[Teredo (bivalve)|Teredo]]'' Linnaeus, 1758
* ''[[Teredora]]'' Bartsch, 1921
* ''[[Teredothyra]]'' Bartsch, 1921
* ''[[Uperotus]]'' Guettard, 1770
* ''[[Zachsia]]'' Bulatoff & Rjabtschikoff, 1933