shipworm

Experts say there are 65 species of the shipworm in the world.

Otherwise known as the shipworm, though it isn't a worm at all.

They were delighted to find little sign of shipworm infestation.

The paper focuses on a unique animal called a shipworm, which despite its name is not a worm.

The bottom was sheathed in copper to protect the vessel from shipworm.

Some bones show evidence of boring by the marine shipworm Teredo.

The copper sheathing, installed to prevent shipworm, was imported from England.

This was to protect the underside timbers from damage from shipworm.

The initial nickname of the Teredo tunneling protocol was shipworm.

However, the low salinity in the northern Baltic Sea keeps the shipworm out.

However, because the wooden piles were never protected by copper sheathing they suffered from shipworm.

By 1934, shipworm and lack of preventive maintenance had materially weakened the wooden structures.

A large log is present in the park, and this is full of tubular shipworm fossils.

These poles had been eaten by shipworm.

The shipworm lives in waters with oceanic salinity.

Within these logs are excavations that were made by the shipworm,Teredora princesae.

"The warmer temperatures mean that the shipworm is less stressed and can thus tolerate lower salinity," she tells the newspaper.

First they scraped away the heavy infestation of weed and treated the shipworm that had already taken hold in the hulls.

A layer of Muntz metal sheathing covered the hull to protect the wood from shipworm.

Fishermen gathered and burned Casuarinaceae's leaves around those vessels in order to deal with shipworm that bored into them.

The water in the harbour being fresh rather than salt, the Vasa’s timbers didn’t rot or end up being consumed by shipworm.

The mollusk, known as a shipworm, drills into the wood and devours the inside of the pilings.

Her timbers are riddled with shipworm.

An indeterminate species of marine teredinid shipworm.

Teredo navalis is the Latin name of one of the best known species of shipworm.