Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Imparidentia > Order Myida > Superfamily Pholadoidea > Family Teredinidae > Subfamily Teredininae

Teredo Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Teredo (Teredo)*	Linnaeus, 1758	synonym

Children

Teredo bartschi Clapp, 1923
Teredo dallii R. B. Watson, 1897
Teredo nana W. Turton, 1822
Teredo navalis Linnaeus, 1758
Teredo utriculus Gmelin, 1791

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Norwegian Bokmål: pælemark sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: pålemakk

Literature

original description	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.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p.
basis of record	Turner, R. D. (1966). A survey and illustrated catalogue of Teredinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge (Massachusetts). ix + 265 pp.
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.
additional source	Palekar, V. C. & Bal, D. V. (1955). Marine organisms injurious to submerged timber in the Bombay Harbour. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 53(2): 201-204, 1 pl., 12 text-figs., 1 map.
additional source	Ueda, T. (1995). Pholadomya turunagai Tan from the Miocene Tari Formation in the Southwestern Part of Tottori Prefecture, Southwest Japan. VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology). 54(4) ; 307 - 316.