Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Imparidentia > Order Myida > Superfamily Pholadoidea > Family Teredinidae > Subfamily Teredininae > Genus Psiloteredo

Psiloteredo megotara (Hanley, 1848)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Psiloteredo*	Bartsch, 1922	accepted genus name
*Teredo (Psiloteredo)*	Bartsch, 1922	synonym

Species group names

*Teredo denticulata*	Fischer, 1856	synonym
*Teredo dilatata*	W. Stimpson, 1851	synonym
*Teredo megotara*	Hanley, 1848	synonym
*Teredo megotara var. excisa*	Jeffreys, 1865	synonym
*Teredo megotara var. mionota*	Jeffreys, 1865	synonym
*Teredo megotara var. striatior*	Jeffreys, 1865	synonym
*Teredo subericola*	Jeffreys, 1860	synonym
*Teredo subericola var. minor*	Jeffreys, 1860	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: skibspæleorm sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: scheepsworm sources: Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.

English: big-ear shipworm sources: Dewarumez, J.-M.; Gévaert, F.; Massé, C.; Foveau, A.; Desroy, N.; Grulois, D. (2011). Les espèces marines animales et végétales introduites dans le bassin Artois-Picardie . UMR CNRS 8187 LOG/Agence de l'Eau Artois-Picardie: Douai. 138 pp.

French: petit taret

Literature

basis of record	Borges, L. M.; Treneman, N. C.; Haga, T.; Shipway, J. R.; Raupach, M. J.; Altermark, B.; Carlton, J. T. (2022 [published online 2021]). Out of taxonomic crypsis: A new trans-arctic cryptic species pair corroborated by phylogenetics and molecular evidence. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 166: 107312.
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.
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Psiloteredo megotara (Hanley, 1848). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141602