Bactronophorus
Species of shipworm
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Bactronophorus is a genus of shipworm native to the Southeast Asia and Western Pacific. It contains a single species, Bactronophorus thoracites,[2] also known as edible shipworm[3] or tambelo (in Indonesia).
| Bactronophorus | |
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| Bactronophorus thoracites as depicted in Systematisches Conchylien-cabinet[1] | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Myida |
| Family: | Teredinidae |
| Genus: | Bactronophorus Tapparone Canefri, 1877 |
| Species: | B. thoracites |
| Binomial name | |
| Bactronophorus thoracites Gould, 1856 | |
The initial name of the genus was Calobates (as described by Augustus Addison Gould in 1862), but since the term had already been used for the Carpococcyx genus of cuckoos,[4] it was superseded with the current name by Tapparone Canefri in 1877.[5]
