Bactronophorus is a genus of shipworm native to the Southeast Asia and Western Pacific. It contains a single species, Bactronophorus thoracites, also known as edible shipwormBactronophorus thoracites (Gould, 1856). SeaLifeBase. or tambelo (in Indonesia).
The initial name of the genus was Calobates (as described by Augustus Addison Gould in 1862), but since the term had already been used for the Carpococcyx genus of cuckoos,Teredo (Calobates) Gould, 1862. WoRMS. it was superseded with the current name by Tapparone Canefri in 1877.Hence, mistakenly referring to the species as “Bactronophorus thoracites (Gould, 1862)”.
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