Animalia > Arthropoda > Malacostraca > Isopoda > Limnoriidae > Limnoria > Limnoria lignorum

Limnoria lignorum (wood gribble; boorpissebed; gribble; paalpissebed)

Synonyms: Cymothoa lignora; Cymothoa lignorum

Wikipedia Abstract

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.
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Predators

Scomberomorus cavalla (Spanish mackerel)[1]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0