Tags: Crustacean.

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.

binomial authority
Martin Rathke
class
Malacostraca
family
Gribble
genus
Limnoria
kingdom
Animal
order
Isopoda
phylum
Arthropod, Crustacean
synonym
*Cymothoa lignora( Rathke 1799), *Cymothoa lignorum( Rathke 1799)

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