Summary ⁴

Teredo navalis, the naval shipworm, is a species of saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Teredinidae, the shipworms. This species is the type species of the genus Teredo. Like other species in this family, this bivalve is called a shipworm because it resembles a worm in general appearance, but at the anterior end it has a small shell of two valves which is specialised to bore through wood.

In Lake Merritt ⁵

It's probably tricky to find living specimens but check out pieces of driftwood for their telltale burrows.

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4. Adapted by Ken-ichi Ueda from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teredo_navalis
5. (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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