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... shell with the other claw and tears off pieces of meat . The blue crab's own ... shells of oysters larger than themselves but most of the destruction is ... inhabitants and scavengers . Although these organisms do not actually prey ...
... shell with the other claw and tears off pieces of meat . The blue crab's own ... shells of oysters larger than themselves but most of the destruction is ... inhabitants and scavengers . Although these organisms do not actually prey ...
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Robert P. Hofstetter. FOULING ORGANISMS Figure 6b . Bryozoan Figure 6c . Barnacles Shell Inhabitants The shell inhabitants include those living within the. [ 18 ]
Robert P. Hofstetter. FOULING ORGANISMS Figure 6b . Bryozoan Figure 6c . Barnacles Shell Inhabitants The shell inhabitants include those living within the. [ 18 ]
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Robert P. Hofstetter. Shell Inhabitants The shell inhabitants include those living within the shell and within the shell cavity . They do not feed upon the oyster but use the shell for their own protection . Such forms as the boring clam ...
Robert P. Hofstetter. Shell Inhabitants The shell inhabitants include those living within the shell and within the shell cavity . They do not feed upon the oyster but use the shell for their own protection . Such forms as the boring clam ...
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adult animals Aransas Bay Barnacles bay areas Bay Disease blue crab boring clam boring sponge bottom Bryozoan cause cilia commercial oyster conch culling cultch Dermocystidium dinoflagellate eggs feeding fertilization Figure fishery in Texas fouling organisms Galveston Bay gills gonads growth Gulf Coast harvest inches Laguna Madre layer of shell lessee M. L. Series mantle flaps Matagorda Bay material Menhaden mouth mudshell dredges mussels natural reefs older oysters oyster bed oyster cultivation oyster farmer oyster larva oyster lease oyster population oyster production oyster reefs oyster shell oyster spat oysterman oysters grow palps parasite Parks and Wildlife particles periostracum pink oysters plankton planted predators produce market oysters public reefs salinity saltier seed oysters SHELL INHABITANTS shell islands shrimp silt small oyster spatfall stakes or pipes stomach stone crab surface temperature Texas bay TEXAS OYSTER Texas Parks tissue Tonging transplanted valves water currents Wildlife Department young oysters