Rock-ingesting freshwater bivalve (Shipworm), Bohol, Philippines

[Oxytropidoceras]

Lithoredo abatanica, below article, should have left some interesting trace fossils in the rock record.

 

This Weird Animal Eats Rocks for Breakfast

By Laura Geggel, LiveSciecne, June 19, 2019

https://www.livescience.com/65739-newly-discovered-clam-eats-rocks.html

 

It would be a nightmare as an invasive species.

 

The open-access paper is:

 

Shipway, J.R., Altamia, M.A., Rosenberg, G., Concepcion, 

G.P., Haygood, M.G. and Distel, D.L., 2019. A rock-boring 

and rock-ingesting freshwater bivalve (shipworm) 

from the Philippines. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 

286(1905), p.20190434.  – Open Access

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.0434

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31213180

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.