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Kuphus
Kuphus is a genus of shipworms, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Teredinidae. There are four extinct species in the genus, Kuphus arenarius, Kuphus incrassatus, Kuphus fistula and Kuphus melitensis. The only extant species is Kuphus polythalamia, the longest bivalve mollusc in the world where the only known permanent natural habitat is Kalamansig, Sultan Kudarat in the Philippines.
2 branches of this genus, most-observed first
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 853034.