A wood boring mollusc/Shipworm is
(a) Chiton
(b) Teredo
(c) Umax
(d) Patella.
The common name for chiton is coat of mail shell. It belongs to the class called as amohineura. So option A is incorrect.
The common bye for Umax is grey slug. The class which it belongs to is gastropoda. So option C is also incorrect.
If we take the common name for patella.. it is limpet. And it belonging to the class called gastropoda. So option D is also incorrect
The common name of Teredo is ship work. It resemble as worm. It belongs to the class of bivalvia. And the phylun is mollusca. In Teredo the head is absent. At the end a pair of triangular plates seems as foot wedge, which helps the organism to burowung the wood. So option B is correct.
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