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 > Genus Teredo

Teredo navalis Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Teredo*	Linnaeus, 1758	accepted genus name
*Teredo (Teredo)*	Linnaeus, 1758	synonym

Species group names

*Teredo batavus*	Spengler, 1792	synonym
*Teredo beachi*	Bartsch, 1921	synonym
*Teredo beaufortana*	Bartsch, 1922	synonym
*Teredo japonica*	Clessin, 1893	synonym
*Teredo morsei*	Bartsch, 1922	synonym
*Teredo navalis borealis*	Roch, 1931	synonym
*Teredo navalis var. occlusa*	Jeffreys, 1865	synonym
*Teredo novangliae*	Bartsch, 1922	synonym
*Teredo vulgaris*	Lamarck, 1801	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Catalan: broma; corc marí sources: TermCat, The Center for Terminology.

Danish: pæleorm sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: gewone paalworm; paalworm sources: de Bruyne, R.H.; Bank, R.A.; Adema, J.P.H.M.; Perk, F.A. (1994). Nederlandse naamlijst van de weekdieren (Mollusca) van Nederland en Belgie: feestuitgave ter gelegenheid van het zestig-jarig jubileum van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging [Dutch namelist of the Mollusca from the Netherlands and Belgium: festive edition at the occasion of the 60-year jubilee of the Dutch Malacological Society]. Backhuys Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73348-33-1. 149 pp.;Leewis, R. (2002). Flora en fauna van de zee [Marine flora and fauna]. Veldgids, 16. KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5011-153-X. 320 pp.

English: common shipworm; great shipworm; naval shipworm sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.;Leewis, R. (2002). Flora en fauna van de zee [Marine flora and fauna]. Veldgids, 16. KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5011-153-X. 320 pp.;North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

French: taret commun sources: Bousfield, E. L. (1964). Coquillages des cotes canadiennes de l'Atlantique. Musée national du Canada. Ottawa. 89 p.

German: Pfahlwurm; Schiffsbohrmuschel sources: de Bruyne, R.H. (2004). Veldgids schelpen. [Field guide shells]. Veldgids, 14. KNNV Uitgeverij & Jeugdbondsuitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5011-140-8. 224 pp.;Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Japanese: フナクイムシ

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	Fuller, S. C., Hu, Y.-P., Lutz, R. A. & Castagna, M. (1989). Shell and pallet morphology in early development stages of Teredo navalis Linné (Bivalvia: Teredinidae). The Nautilus. 103(1): 24-35, figs. 1-13.
additional source	Zenetos, A., M.E. Cinar, M.A. Pancucci-Papadopoulou, J.G. Harmelin, G. Furnari, F. Andaloro, N. Bellou, N. Streftaris & H. Zibrowius. (2005). Annotated list of marine alien species in the Mediterranean with records of the worst invasive species. Mediterranean Marine Science. 6 (2): 63-118.
additional source	Sellius, G. (1733). Historia naturalis teredinis seu Xylophagi marini, tubulo-conchoidis speciatim belgici: cum tabulis ad vivum coloratis. Apud Hermannum Besseling: Trajecti ad Rhenum (Utrecht). (30), 353, (11), 4 pl. pp.
additional source	Zenetos, A., S. Gofas, M. Verlaque, M. Cinar, J. Garcia Raso, C. Bianchi, C. Morri, E. Azzurro, M. Bilecenoglu, C. Froglia, I. Siokou, D. Violanti, A. Sfriso, G. San Martin, A. Giangrande, T. Katagan, E. Ballesteros, A. Ramos-Espla, F. Mastrototaro, O. Ocana, A. Zingone, M,. Gambi & N. Streftaris. (2010). Alien species in the Mediterranean Sea by 2010. A contribution to the application of European Union's Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). Part I. Spatial distribution. Mediterranean Marine Science. 11(2): 381-493.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
additional source	Bartsch, P. (1923). The status of Teredo beachi and Teredo navalis. The Nautilus. 37(1): 31-32 [July].
additional source	Bartsch, P. (1923). The status of Teredo beachi and Teredo navalis. Science. 57(1485): 692.

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External Links

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Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Teredo navalis Linnaeus, 1758. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141607