Ruth Dixon Turner (1914 – April 30, 2000) was a pioneering U.S. marine biologist and malacologist. She was the world's expert on Teredinidae or shipworms, a taxonomic family of wood-boring bivalve mollusks which severely damage wooden marine installations.
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1915 Melrose, Massachusetts
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30 April 2000 (aged 84) Waltham, Massachusetts
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