[Rockhounds] Freshwater bivalve that eats rocks

[Paul]

Hi,

The freshwater bivalve described in the below article sounds
like something from a USACE's engineer's nightmare.

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

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

It could make a nasty invasive species depending on what it
can do to concrete dams, bridges, and other structures.
Fortunately, the paper suggests that this possibility is very
unlikely.

Yours,

Paul H.