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Teredinidae

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Teredinidae [‚terĀ·ə′dinĀ·ə‚dē]
(invertebrate zoology)
The pileworms or shipworms, a family of bivalve mollusks in the subclass Eulamellibranchia distinguished by having the two valves reduced to a pair of small plates at the anterior end of the animal.


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The majority of about 89 species reported in the class Bivalvia, exception for Pectinidae and Teredinidae, had mostly metacentric and submetacentric chromosomes.
 
 
 
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