The habitat and food of the California sea mussel
Series: Bulletin of the Scripps institution of oceanography, La Jolla, Calif. Technical series -- v. 4, no. 1; Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California -- v. 4, no. 1
Publisher: University of California press
Published: 1936
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Mussels
Notes: "Literature cited": p. 62-64.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by D. L. Fox; title: The survival period of adult mussels in sea water of various concentrations / by D. L. Fox, G. W. Marks and F. O. Austin; title: Food, method of capture, and rate of digestion: The organs of feeding and digestion / by F. O. Austin and D. L. fox; title: The rate of digestion of ingested diatoms and dinoflagellates / by F. O. Austin; title: Consumption of diatomes and dinoflagellates by the mussel / by H. M. Buley; title: The digestive enzymes / by D. L. Fox and G. W. Marks; title: Certain physical and chemical properties of the fecal pellets and some experimental feeding studies / by D. L. Fox; title: General summary and conclusions / by D. L. Fox.