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Lithoredo
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Myida
Family: Teredinidae
Genus: Lithoredo
Shipway, Distel & Rosenberg, 2019
Species:
L. abatanica
Binomial name
Lithoredo abatanica
Shipway, Distel & Rosenberg, 2019

Lithoredo is a genus of shipworm native to the Abatan River in the Philippines. It contains a single species, Lithoredo abatanica, described in June 2019.[1] The species is unusual because, unlike other shipworms which mainly bore into wood, it tunnels into and excretes limestone.

References

  1. ^ Shipway, J. Reuben; Altamia, Marvin A.; Rosenberg, Gary; Concepcion, Gisela P.; Haygood, Margo G.; Distel, Daniel L. (2019). "A rock-boring and rock-ingesting freshwater bivalve (shipworm) from the Philippines". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 286 (1905): 20190434. doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.0434.