Classification of the Teredinidae. (Book Reviews: A Survey and Illustrated Catalogue of the Teredinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia))
- R. D. Turner
- Geography, Biology
- 1966
A new genus and five new species of mussels lBivalviac Mytilidaer from deep-sea sulfideshydrocarbon seeps in the Gulf of Mexico
- R. Gustafson, R. D. Turner, R. Lutz, R. Vrijenhoek
- Biology
- 1998
Five new species of modioliform mussels in the family Mytilidae are described from material collected at sulfide/hydrocarbon seeps in the Gulf of Mexico. New definitive taxa, placed in the subfamily…
Classification of Bivalvia
- N. D. Newell, L. R. Cox, J. Weir
- Environmental Science
- 1969
The Bivalvia are wholly aquatic benthos that have undergone secondary degeneration from the condition of the ancestral mollusk through the loss of the head and the adoption of a passive mode of life in which feeding is accomplished by the filtering of water or sifting of sediment for particulate organic matter.
A Cellulolytic Nitrogen-Fixing Bacterium Cultured from the Gland of Deshayes in Shipworms (Bivalvia: Teredinidae)
- J. Waterbury, C. Calloway, R. D. Turner
- BiologyScience
- 30 September 1983
A novel bacterium has been isolated in pure culture from the gland of Deshayes in six species of teredinid bivalves. It is the first bacterium known to both digest cellulose and fix nitrogen, and it…
Wood-Boring Bivalves, Opportunistic Species in the Deep Sea
- R. D. Turner
- Environmental ScienceScience
- 29 June 1973
Wood exposed for 104 days at a depth of 1830 meters at the permanent station of the research submersible D.R.V.S. Alvin was completely riddled by two species of bivalve wood borers, showing Xylophaga is shown to be the most important species involved in decomposing woody plant material in the deep sea.
The Family Pholadidae in the Western Atlantic and the Eastern Pacific. Part I - Pholadinae
- R. D. Turner
- Biology
- 1954
The giant white calm from the Galapagos Rift, Calyptogena magnifica species novum
- K. Boss, R. D. Turner
- Biology
- 1980
Xyloredo, a new teredinid-like abyssal wood-borer (Mollusca, Pholadidae, Xylophagainae)
- R. D. Turner
- Biology
- 1972
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