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Mytilicola Intestinalis (Copepoda: Cyclopoida): A Ten Year Survey of Infested Mussels in a Cornish Estuary, 1978–1988

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

J. T. Davey
J. T. Davey
Affiliation:
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, The Hoe, Plymouth, PL1 3DH
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The progress of the copepod Mytilicola intestinalis Steuer from obscurity in Mediterranean mussels, Mytilus galloprovincialis, to notoriety as the scourge of European blue mussels, M. edulis, has been well documented (e.g. Lauckner, 1983). However, a reputation as a pest in a commercially important species is not easily overturned and operators in the economic sphere must be expected to proceed with circumspection where their livelihoods are.at stake. In the UK, Parliamentary Orders still control the deposition and movements of seed shellfish in the attempt to contain the spread of the copepod.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 69 , Issue 4 , November 1989 , pp. 823 - 836
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1989

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