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- noun Plural form of
shipworm .
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Although the article was more about how to prevent the infestations of ships with shipworms than about the animals themselves, I will argue that it was probably the 1st article about mollusks published in a scientific journal.
Archive 2009-09-01 AYDIN 2009
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Why, they were mollusks, of course; specifically, bivalves of the family Teredinidae that are commonly known as shipworms.
What were the first scientific journal and the first paper on mollusks ever published? AYDIN 2009
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Why, they were mollusks, of course; specifically, bivalves of the family Teredinidae that are commonly known as shipworms.
Archive 2009-09-01 AYDIN 2009
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Although the article was more about how to prevent the infestations of ships with shipworms than about the animals themselves, I will argue that it was probably the 1st article about mollusks published in a scientific journal.
What were the first scientific journal and the first paper on mollusks ever published? AYDIN 2009
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As they gnaw their way through the outer layers of driftwood, the gribbles and shipworms leave more than half of it undigested, and reduce it to the fine wood powder that sinks into the mud of estuaries as the food known to the marine biologists as micro-detritus.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Deconstructed by gribbles and shipworms, it is a major source of food for marine animals and plants.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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As they gnaw their way through the outer layers of driftwood, the gribbles and shipworms leave more than half of it undigested, and reduce it to the fine wood powder that sinks into the mud of estuaries as the food known to the marine biologists as micro-detritus.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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The second group, the molluscs, are the shipworms, whose shells are specially adapted to rasp their way into the wood.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Deconstructed by gribbles and shipworms, it is a major source of food for marine animals and plants.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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The second group, the molluscs, are the shipworms, whose shells are specially adapted to rasp their way into the wood.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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