Limnoria lignorum: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Isopoda
- Family
- Limnoriidae
- Genus
- Limnoria
- Species
- Limnoria lignorum
- Scientific Name
- Limnoria lignorum
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Limnoria lignorum
Limnoria lignorum, commonly known as the gribble, is a species of isopod in the family Limnoriidae. It is found in shallow water in the North Atlantic and North Pacific Ocean where it tunnels into wood and attacks and destroys submerged wooden structures.
...Limnoria lignorum in languages:
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- Bohrassel
- Japanese
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Limnoria algarum
- Limnoria andamanensis
- Limnoria borealis
- Limnoria clarkae
- Limnoria indica
- Limnoria insulae
- Limnoria lignorum
- Limnoria mazzellae
- Limnoria multipunctata
- Limnoria pfefferi
- Limnoria platycauda
- Limnoria quadripunctata
- Limnoria rugosissima
- Limnoria saseboensis
- Limnoria simulata
- Limnoria tripunctata
- Limnoria tuberculata
- Limnoria uncapedis
- Limnoria unicornis














