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Scientific Name: Bactronophorus thoracites (A. Gould, 1856)
English Name: Edible shipworm/Still pallated shipworm
Local/Bangla Name: Nonapoka (নোনাপোকা)
Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Myida
Family: Teredinidae
Description:
Elongate, soft, vermiform animal body with two reduced shell valves at the anterior end of the body. These are the cutting and boring instruments to reduced wood to dust particles by rasping action. Distal end of the pallets with a warty, bladder-like calcareous extension and widely fused siphons. In adults, dorsal portion of the anterior slope with the disc and the eroded posterior lobe; the auricles internally form a shelf where the disc overlaps. Apophysis finger-like, arising from the shelf at the junction of lobe and disc. Colour: exterior light grey to whitish, interior white.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
Katka, Pakkirchar, Dublarchar and Koikhali in the Sundarban area
Environment:
Benthic, Brackish, Tropical
Main References:
Siddiqui KU, Islam MA, Kabir SMH, Ahmad M, Ahmed ATA, Rahman AKA, Haque EU, Ahmed ZU, Begum ZNT, Hassan MA, Khondker M, Rahman MM (2007) Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol. 17. Molluscs. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka 415 pp.
Other References:
DNA Barcodes from Bangladesh
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Other DNA Barcodes & Nucleutide Sequences
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