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Lithoredo

species of shipworm

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ96114079 ↗
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Lithoredo is a genus of shipworm native to the Abatan River in the Philippines. It contains a single species, Lithoredo abatanica, described in June 2019. The species is unusual because, unlike other shipworms which mainly bore into wood, it tunnels into and excretes limestone. It lacks the cecum which in other shipworms holds symbiotic bacteria which digest wood. Compared to other shipworms, Lithoredo have differently shaped teeth which can finely grind stone. The worms use the tunnels to live in, but their method of eating is not yet known. They may get nutrition from bacteria in their gills.

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“Lithoredo” enters the record as species of shipworm. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lithoredo, species and shipworm can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lithoredo, species and shipworm.
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“Lithoredo” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Lithoredo, species and shipworm provides the most credible route into that argument.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lithoredo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.