Bactronophorus
| Bactronophorus | |
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| Bactronophorus thoracites as depicted in Systematisches Conchylien-cabinet[1] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Myida |
| Family: | Teredinidae |
| Genus: | Tapparone Canefri, 1877 |
| Species: | B. thoracites
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| Binomial name | |
| Bactronophorus thoracites Gould, 1856
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Bactronophorus is a genus of shipworm native to the Southeast Asia and Western Pacific. It contains a single species, Bactronophorus thoracites,[2] also known as edible shipworm[3] or tambelo (in Indonesia).
The initial name of the genus was Calobates (as described by Augustus Addison Gould in 1862), but since the term had already been used for the Carpococcyx genus of cuckoos,[4] it was superseded with the current name by Tapparone Canefri in 1877.[5]
References
- ^ Clessin, S. (1893) Systematisches Conchylien-cabinet. Bd.11:Abt.4. Nürnberg. S. 137.
- ^ Lee, Mohamed & Lamasudin 2019.
- ^ Bactronophorus thoracites (Gould, 1856). SeaLifeBase.
- ^ Teredo (Calobates) Gould, 1862. WoRMS.
- ^ Hence, Lee, Mohamed & Lamasudin (2019) mistakenly referring to the species as “Bactronophorus thoracites (Gould, 1862)”.
Literature
- Lee, S. Y.; Mohamed, R.; Lamasudin, D. U. (2019). "Morphology and molecular phylogenetic placement of a coastal shipworm (Bactronophorus thoracites (Gould, 1862), Teredinidae) from Peninsular Malaysia". Regional Studies in Marine Science. 29. doi:10.1016/j.rsma.2019.100694.