World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

WoRMS taxon details

Psiloteredo Bartsch, 1922

AphiaID

138537 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138537)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Teredo dilatata W. Stimpson, 1851 accepted as Psiloteredo megotara (Hanley, 1848) (type by original designation)

Parent

Teredininae Rafinesque, 1815

Original name

Teredo (Psiloteredo) Bartsch, 1922

Synonymised names

Psiloteredo (Psiloteredo) Bartsch, 1922 · unaccepted

Teredo (Dactyloteredo) Moll, 1952 · unaccepted (synonym)

Teredo (Psiloteredo) Bartsch, 1922 · unaccepted (original rank)

Direct children (11)

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Species Psiloteredo healdi (Bartsch, 1931)
Species Psiloteredo megotara (Hanley, 1848)
Species Psiloteredo pentagonalis Iw. Taki & Habe, 1945
Species Psiloteredo senegalensis (Blainville, 1824)
Subgenus Psiloteredo (Phylloteredo) Roch, 1937 accepted as Nototeredo Bartsch, 1923
1. Species Psiloteredo (Phylloteredo) amboinensis Iw. Taki & T. Habe, 1945 accepted as Spathoteredo obtusa (Sivickis, 1928) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
2. Species Psiloteredo (Phylloteredo) kirai Iw. Taki & Habe, 1945 accepted as Nototeredo edax (Hedley, 1895) (junior subjective synonym)
3. Species Psiloteredo (Phylloteredo) septa Mawatari & Kitamura, 1960 accepted as Psiloteredo pentagonalis Iw. Taki & Habe, 1945
4. Species Psiloteredo (Phylloteredo) yakushimae Habe, 1952 accepted as Nototeredo edax (Hedley, 1895) (nomen nudum)
Subgenus Psiloteredo (Psiloteredo) Bartsch, 1922 accepted as Psiloteredo Bartsch, 1922
1. Species Psiloteredo (Psiloteredo) pentagonalis Iw. Taki & Habe, 1945 accepted as Psiloteredo pentagonalis Iw. Taki & Habe, 1945 (basionym)

Environment

marine, brackish, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Teredo (Psiloteredo) Bartsch, 1922) Bartsch, P. (1922). A monograph of the American shipworms. United States National Museum Bulletin. 122: 1-51., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7875085
page(s): 7, 36 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Psiloteredo Bartsch, 1922. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138537 on 2025-06-26

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2010-10-03 15:39:41Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2010-10-15 02:21:05Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2021-10-13 18:48:15Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description (of Teredo (Psiloteredo) Bartsch, 1922) Bartsch, P. (1922). A monograph of the American shipworms. United States National Museum Bulletin. 122: 1-51., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7875085
page(s): 7, 36 [details]

basis of record Turner, R. D. (1966). A survey and illustrated catalogue of Teredinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge (Massachusetts). ix + 265 pp. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/134382
page(s): 76 [details]

Other

additional source Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

From regional or thematic species database

Introduced species vector dispersal Canadian part of the The Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia (Marine Region) Debris: transport of species on human generated debris (millet log) [details]

Definitions

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