The Biology and Culture of Pearl Oysters (Bivalvia Pteriidae)

A.C.C. Victor Alagarswami 1970 Alagarswami and Chellam albina Aquaculture areas bivalve Bivalvia blacklip broodstock Bull byssal Chellam Coeroli collectors color comm Cook Islands Crossland 1957 culture of pearl cultured pearls Dharmaraj dorsoventral Dybdahl farm Fish follicles fouling French Polynesia fucata martensii Galtsoff Gervis gonad growth rates Gulf of Mannar half pearls hatchery production Hedley Heel depth Herdman Hornell Hynd ICLARM India Indo-Pacific Intes Jameson Japan Japanese juveniles Kafuku and Ikenoue Komaru Larval rearing layers longline longline system mantle margaritifera Meleagrina mesh Mohammad molluscs mortalities nacre nacreous Numaguchi and Tanaka ongrowing oocytes oyster Pinctada fucata pearl culture pearl oyster Pinctada pearl oysters pearl production pearl shell Pêche pers Pinctada margaritifera Pinctada species polychaetes predation Pteria penguin Pteriidae rafts Red Sea Rose and Baker Saville-Kent settlement spat collection spawning spherical pearls substrate T.S. Velayudhan temperature tion tissue Tranter ture umbo valves Wada