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A rock-boring and rock-ingesting freshwater bivalve (shipworm) from the Philippines
Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences, v 286(1905), 20190434
19 Jun 2019
PMID: 31213180
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Abstract
Shipworms are a group of wood-boring and wood-feeding bivalves of extraordinary economic, ecological and historical importance. Known in the literature since the fourth century BC, shipworms are both destructive pests and critical providers of ecosystem services. All previously described shipworms are obligate wood-borers, completing all or part of their life cycle in wood and most are thought to use wood as a primary source of nutrition. Here, we report and describe a new anatomically and morphologically divergent species of shipworm that bores in carbonate limestone rather than in woody substrates and lacks adaptations associated with wood-boring and wood digestion. The species is highly unusual in that it bores by ingesting rock and is among the very few known freshwater rock-boring macrobioeroders. The calcareous burrow linings of this species resemble fossil borings normally associated with bivalve bioerosion of wood substrates (ichnospecies Teredolites longissimus) in marginal and fully marine settings. The occurrence of this newly recognized shipworm in a lithic substrate has implications for teredinid phylogeny and evolution, and interpreting palaeoenvironmental conditions based on fossil bioerosion features.
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- Title
- A rock-boring and rock-ingesting freshwater bivalve (shipworm) from the Philippines
- Creators
- J. Reuben Shipway - Northeastern UniversityMarvin A. Altamia - Northeastern UniversityGary Rosenberg - Drexel UniversityGisela P. Concepcion - University of the Philippines DilimanMargo G. Haygood - University of UtahDaniel L. Distel (Corresponding Author) - Northeastern University
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences, v 286(1905), 20190434
- Publisher
- The Royal Society
- Number of pages
- 10
- Grant note
- IOS1442759 / National Science Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF) U19TW008163 / FOGARTY INTERNATIONAL CENTER; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH Fogarty International Center (FIC) U19TW008163 / Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH Fogarty International Center (FIC)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Biodiversity, Earth, and Environmental Science (BEES); Malacology
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000472210500002
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85068356682
- Other Identifier
- 991019168788604721
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