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

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