Lithoredo
| Lithoredo | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Myida |
| Family: | Teredinidae |
| Genus: | Lithoredo |
| Species: | L. abatanica
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| Binomial name | |
| Lithoredo abatanica Shipway, Distel & Rosenberg, 2019
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Lithoredo abatanica is a species of shipworm native to the Abatan River in the Philippines. It was first described in the Proceedings of the Royal Society in June 2019.[1] The species is unusual because, unlike other shipworms which mainly bore into wood, it tunnels into and excretes limestone.
References
- ^ 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.