Maine
- Type:
- shipwreck, steamer, USA
- Built:
- 1891, Harlan & Hollingsworth, Wilmington DE USA
- Specs:
- ( 310 x 44 ft ) 1505 gross tons
- Sunk:
- Wednesday February 4, 1920
pushed onto rocks by pack ice - no casualties - Depth:
- 15 ft
low debris field
Teredo navalis
Size: to 5 "
This worm-like creature is actually a bivalve mollusk with a greatly reduced shell, which it uses to bore tunnels into wood. They typically spend their entire lives in a tunnel in a single piece of wood. In addition to feeding off the wood, they can also filter feed like ordinary bivalves.
In the age of wooden ships, teredos and other wood-borers were a tremendous problem. In our area, more wood-boring is done by crustaceans than Teredos.
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