Condylostoma - an enemy of bivalve larvae
Loosanoff, V.L. (1959). Condylostoma - an enemy of bivalve larvae. Science (Wash.) 129(3342): 147
In: Science (Washington). American Association for the Advancement of Science: New York, N.Y. ISSN 0036-8075; e-ISSN 1095-9203, more
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Abstract |
In laboratory cultures, where larvae of such bivalves as oysters and clams were kept together with large ciliates of the family Condylostomidae, the latter were seen ingesting the larvae. A single Condylostoma could contain as many as six larvae. Related species may destroy many bivalve larvae in nature. |
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