타밀록

나무를 파먹고 살아가는 이매패강의 일종. 친척으로는 돌이나 산호를 뚫고 들어가는 돌맛조개가 있다. 넓게는 배좀벌레조개과, 좁게는 배좀벌레조개를 의미한다. 항목에서는 배좀벌레조개과를 주로 설명한다.

Tamilok

The shipworms are marine bivalve molluscs in the family Teredinidae: a group of saltwater clams with long, soft, naked bodies. They are notorious for boring into wood that is immersed in sea water, including such structures as wooden piers, docks and ships; they drill passages by means of a pair of very small shells borne at one end, with which they rasp their way through. Sometimes called "termites of the sea", they also are known as "Teredo worms" or simply Teredo, from the Greek τερηδών teredōn, via Latin. Eventually biologists adopted the common name Teredo as the name for the best-known genus.