Polychaeta taxon details
Teredo Linnaeus, 1758
138539 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138539)
accepted
Genus
- Species Teredo simplex I. Lea, 1833 † accepted as Protula simplex (Lea, 1833) † (original binomen; described in Mollusca but reclassified as a polychaete)
marine, brackish
feminine
Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors 
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Polychaeta (2024). Teredo Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138539 on 2025-04-04
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Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Turner, R. D. (1966). <i>A survey and illustrated catalogue of Teredinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia)</i>. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge (Massachusetts). ix + 265 pp. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/134382
page(s): 76 [details]
additional source Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. [details]
additional source Ueda, T. (1995). Pholadomya turunagai Tan from the Miocene Tari Formation in the Southwestern Part of Tottori Prefecture, Southwest Japan. <em>VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology).</em> 54(4) ; 307 - 316. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Palekar, V. C. & Bal, D. V. (1955). Marine organisms injurious to submerged timber in the Bombay Harbour. <em>Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.</em> 53(2): 201-204, 1 pl., 12 text-figs., 1 map., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48180555#page/268/ [details]
[request]basis of record Turner, R. D. (1966). <i>A survey and illustrated catalogue of Teredinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia)</i>. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge (Massachusetts). ix + 265 pp. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/134382
page(s): 76 [details]
additional source Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. [details]
additional source Ueda, T. (1995). Pholadomya turunagai Tan from the Miocene Tari Formation in the Southwestern Part of Tottori Prefecture, Southwest Japan. <em>VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology).</em> 54(4) ; 307 - 316. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Palekar, V. C. & Bal, D. V. (1955). Marine organisms injurious to submerged timber in the Bombay Harbour. <em>Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.</em> 53(2): 201-204, 1 pl., 12 text-figs., 1 map., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48180555#page/268/ [details]
