Notes on the Distribution of Wood-Boring Teredines in the 
Tropical In do Pacific 
V. V. Srinivasan 1 
Extensive work has been carried out on the 
taxonomy of the Teredinidae of the east coast 
of India, the Philippines, the Hawaiian Islands, 
and other areas in the Pacific (Becker, 1958; 
Daniel, 1956; Nair, 1961 2 ; Rajagopal, 1964; 
Saraswathi, 1964; Sivickis, 1928; Bartsch, 1921, 
1922, 1927; Moll and Roch, 1931; Roch, 1935, 
1940, 1955^, 1955 b\ Miller, 1924; Edmondson, 
1941, 1942, 1946, 1959). Recently Turner 
(1966), in her "Catalogue of the Teredinidae,” 
has redefined the genera and proposed a new 
system of classification. During a recent survey 
of the Teredinidae of the Hawaiian Islands it 
was possible for the author to collect material, 
study Dr. Edmondson’s types, and draw con- 
clusions on the possible mode of distribution of 
the teredines in the tropical Indo-Pacific area. 
The study at Hawaii was based on collections 
at different sites on the island of Oahu, the 
island of Kauai and from Dr. C. H. Edmond- 
son’s type collections at the Bishop Museum in 
Honolulu. Also panels of Douglas fir and white 
pine were suspended at various depths at two 
different sites — one at Kewalo Basin, Honolulu 
and the other at Coconut Island, Kaneohe — and 
teredines were collected after an immersion 
period of about 3 months. Material from the 
Madras coast was collected from drift logs 
washed ashore on the Madras beach (Mylapore 
and Triplicane areas), from floating pieces of 
wood, from underwater wooden structures like 
piles and catamarans, and from test planks 
which were submerged in Madras harbour dur- 
ing 1965-1967. Specimens collected were identi- 
fied using Turner’s revised classification. The 
following are the species that occur on the 
Madras and Hawaiian coasts. Of the 18 species 
(11 of them new species) described by Edrnond- 
1 Marine Organisms Scheme, Zoological Research 
Laboratory, University of Madras, Madras-5, India. 
Part of this work was carried out while the author 
held a F.A.O. (UN) fellowship in 1966. Manuscript 
received April 5, 1967. 
2 Refer to Nair (1961) for earlier papers. 
son, only 12 seem to be valid. Also, 27 species of 
teredines have been described from the Madras 
coast and these refer only to 13 valid species. 
The original names as well as synonyms ( * from 
the Madras coast, 0 from the Pacific islands) 
have been listed here. 
Bankia carinata Gray 
*Bankia ( Bankiella ) edmondsoni Nair 
* Bankia ( Bankiella ) indica Nair 
Bankia campannelata Moll and Roch 
* Bankia ( Bankia ) bengalensis Nair 
Bankia bipennata Turton 
* Bankia {Plumulella) line at a Nair 
* Bankia {Neo bankia) lineata Nair 
*Bankia ( Neobankia ) denticulos errata Daniel 
Lyrodus pedicellatus Quatrefages 
*Teredo { Teredo ) indica Nair 
* Teredo ( Lyrodus ) malaccana Roch 
* Teredo ( Teredo ) madras ensis Nair 
°Teredo ( Teredo ) honoluluensis Edmondson 
°Teredo ( Teredops ) die gens is and var. mid- 
wayensis Edmondson 
Dicyathifer manni Wright 
* Teredo { Kuphus ) manni Wright 
Teredora princesae Sivickis 
*Teredo ( Teredora ) gregoryi Dali et al. 
* Teredo {T eredora) minoris Nair 
*Teredo ( Dactyloteredo ) diederichseni Roch 
°Teredo {T eredora) gregoryi Dali et al. 
Nototeredo edax Hedleyi 
* Teredo ( Psiloteredo ) tondiensis Nair and 
Gurumani 
*T ere do {Dactyloteredo) juttingae Roch 
U perotus clavus Gmelin 
* Teredo {Teredora) clava Gmelin 
* Teredo {T eredora) vattanensis Nair and 
Gurumani 
*Teredo {T eredora) rehderi Nair 
Nausitora dunlopei Wright 
* Bankia {Nausitora) madrasensis Nair 
* Nausitora lanceolata Rajagopal 
Teredo furcifera von Martens 
* Teredo {Teredo) jure Hiatus Miller 
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