File:FMIB 47808 Clamshell heavily set with thousands of young spatand a portion of the shell enlarged to show the detailed structure of the spat.jpeg
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English: Herbert F. Prytherch |
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English: Clamshell heavily set with thousands of young spat...and a portion of the shell enlarged to show the detailed structure of the spat
a, spat just attached; b, spat one day old; c, spat two days old. The clamshell was taken from Great South Bay in 1921 and illustrates the heavy loss of young oysters that must occur on such a hard, firm material on which all but 8 or 10 are lost from overcrowding and suffocation
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| Date | 1924.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: Freshwater and Marine Image Bank |
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English: Prytherch, Herbert F. (1924) Experiments in the Artificial Propagation of Oysters, Report of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries for the Fiscal Year 1923 with Appendices, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office |
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