And i did the Tamilok Challenge in Aklan. This shipworm is called
tamilok and is eaten as a delicacy. Shipworms are not worms at all, but
rather a group of unusual saltwater clams with long, soft, naked bodies;
they are marine bivalve molluscs in the family Teredinidae. They are
notorious for boring into (and commonly eventually destroying) wood that
is immersed in sea water, including such structures as wooden piers,
docks and ships; they drill passages by means of a pair of very small
shells borne at one end, with which they rasp their way through.
Sometimes called "termites of the sea", they also are known by the
common name "Teredo worms" or simply "teredo", from the Greek language
"τερηδων", via Latin. Eventually biologists adopted the common name
Teredo as the name for the best-known genus.
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