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Unwelcome Neighbors


Common Shipworm (Teredo navalis) and other marine invertebrates
Hand-colored lithograph after "Mr. Sowerby" (probably George Brettingham Sowerby)
From: John George Wood, The Common Objects of the Seashore: including hints for an aquarium (London, 1866)
NYPL, General Research Division

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