Lyrodus
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Lyrodus is a genus of ship-worms, marine
bivalve molluscs of the family
Teredinidae.
Marine (ocean)
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bivalve molluscs of the family
Family (biology)
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Teredinidae.
Species in the genus Lyrodus
- Lyrodus bipartitus (Jeffreys, 1860) - furrow shipworm
- Lyrodus floridanus (Bartsch, 1922) - Florida shipworm
- Lyrodus medilobata (Edmondson, 1942)
- Lyrodus pedicellatus (de Quatrefages, 1849) - blacktip shipworm
- Lyrodus takanoshimensis (Roch, 1929) - Takanoshima shipworm