Yellow-margin shipworm
Teredo fulleri
- Usual depth9 m
- Water temperature27–29 °C
- Best monthsAugust
- How commonRare
Where and when
Where it has been recorded
Worldwide
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Best months
Worldwide (open data)
- January: 1 records
- February: 0 records
- March: 0 records
- April: 0 records
- May: 0 records
- June: 0 records
- July: 0 records
- August: 2 records
- September: 0 records
- October: 0 records
- November: 0 records
- December: 0 records
Depth and water temperature
Depth
Mostly recorded at 9 m · Deepest record: 9 m
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 27–29 °C
Names and classification
- English
- Yellow-margin shipworm
Names in 2 more languages
- Japanese
- シャモジフナクイムシ
- Simplified Chinese
- 紅樹林蛀船蛤
Other scientific names: Teredo bicorniculata, Teredo indomalaiica
Similar species
- Shipworm
Teredo clappi
Sources and credits
Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).
- Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
- Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
- 8 open-data records from 1924 to 2015.
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