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Factors influencing shell deposition during a tidal cycle in the intertidal bivalve Cerastoderma edule

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

C. A. Richardson ,
D. J. Crisp  and
N. W. Runham
C. A. Richardson
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University College of North Wales, Deiniol Road, Bangor, Gwynedd
D. J. Crisp
Affiliation:
N.E.R.C. Unit of Marine Invertebrate Biology, Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge, Gwynedd
N. W. Runham
Affiliation:
N.E.R.C. Unit of Marine Invertebrate Biology, Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge, Gwynedd
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Extract

The thin band between growth increments in the shell of Cerastoderma edule is laid down at the end of the period of emersion, when the pH of the mantle and extrapallial fluids are at a minimum of pH 7·0 and 7·2 respectively. The growth increment is formed during immersion when the pH of the extrapallial fluid is 7·5–7·7 and the mantle 7·6–7·8, which is close to that of sea water (pH 7·8).

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 61 , Issue 2 , May 1981 , pp. 465 - 476
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1981

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