Borers in the Shell of the Sea Scallop, Placopecten magellnnicus

• Published in: American Zoologist
• Main Author: EVANS, JOHN W.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1969
• Subjects: PENETRATION BY INVERTEBRATES; Burrows; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://icb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/9/3/775; https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/9.3.775

Shells of the sea scallop, Placopecten magellanictis Gmelin from Newfoundland waters were examined for borers by direct stereomicroscopic and X-ray radio-graphic means. Young shells are first attacked by the boring sponge, Cliona vastifica, and the spionid polychaetes, Polydora websteri and Polydora...