[Rockhounds] Freshwater bivalve that eats rocks

[Tim Fisher]

There may be some fossils that will warrant reinterpretation. This thing has
probably been around a long time and who knows what it distribution was...

Tim Fisher
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Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2019 4:27 PM
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Subject: [Rockhounds] Freshwater bivalve that eats rocks

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.

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