Study of the Southern Quahog (Mercenaria campechiensis Gmelin) in Texas Waters
Date
1966
Authors
Hofstetter, Robert P. and Johnson, Roy B., Jr.
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Publisher
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Abstract
Small groups of quahogs (Mercenaria campechiensis Gmelin) from a natural bed in West (Galveston) Bay were held in trays or boxes in Galveston Bay and the Lower Laguna Madre to study growth and mortality.
Description
pages 235-255; available for download at the link below.
Keywords
southern quahog, Mercenaria campechiensis, growth, mortality, predation, stone crab, Menippe mercenaria, conch, thais haemostoma, Dermocystidium marinum, fungal diseases