PARAMETERS OF MARINE INVERTEBRATE POPULATIONS 47 



LIST OF SPECIES MENTIONED IN TEXT 



Native oyster 

 Portuguese oyster 

 Cockle 

 Mussel 

 Scallop 

 Clam . 

 Whelk 

 Winkle 



Lobster — European 

 American 

 Edible crab . 

 Norway lobster . 

 Pink shrimp 

 Prawn 

 Hermit crab 

 Common shore crab 

 American whelk tingle 

 Dog whelk . 

 Common starfish . 

 Brittle-star . 

 American slipper limpet 

 Boring worm 



Shell disease . 

 Oystercatcher 



Ostrea edulis L. 



Gryphaea angulata Lamarck. 



Cardium edule L. 



Mytilus edulis L. 



Pecten maximus (L.) . 



My a arenaria L. 



Buccinum undatum L. 



Littorina littorea (L.) 



Homarus vulgaris Milne-Edwards. 



Homarus americanus Milne-Edwards. 



Cancer pagurus L. 



Nephrops norvegicus L. 



Pandalus montagui Leach. 



Palaemon serratus (Pennant) . 



Eupagurus bernhardus (L.). 



Carcinus maenas (L.). 



Urosalpinx cinerea (Say). 



Nucella lapillus (L.). 



Aster ias ruhens L. 



Ophiura and Amphiura spp. 



Crepidula fornicata (L.). 



Poly dor a ciliata (Johnson) and P. hoplura 



Claparede. 

 Unidentified fungus. 

 Haematopus ostralegus. 



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