the titles were published after the end of the 2nd world war, and over 

 50% from 1955 to 1960. No title mentions Meraenaria (Venus) species 

 directly, but many are pertinent to effects of pollution on shellfishes. 

 An index would have been helpful, especially if it had included key words 

 in the bodies of the papers. - J.L.M. 



904 



Ino, Takashi. 1972. 



Controlled breeding of molluscs. In Coastal Aquaculture in the Indo - 

 Pacific Region. T. V. R. Pillay (edj. Fishing News (Books) Ltd., London: 

 260-272. 



Methods of inducing spawning of Mercenaria are discussed with citations of 

 papers by Loosanoff and others, abstracted elsewhere in this bibliography. 

 - J.L.M. 



905 



International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1954. 



Opinion 195: Designation, under the plenary powers, of a type species for 

 the genus Venus Linnaeus, 1758 (Class Pelecypoda) in harmony with accustomed 

 usage. Opin. Decl. 3(14): 191-198. Also in Bull. Zool. Nomencl. 4 

 (1950): 304-305. 



Designates Venus verrucosa, an eastern Atlantic form, as the type species of 

 this genus, thus establishing Venus as the generic name of the eastern 

 Atlantic forms. - from Wells, Ecology 38(1), 1957 - J.L.M. 



906 



Interstate Sanitation Commission. 1939. 



Report relative to shellfish industry in New York Harbor. Federal Works 

 Agency, Works Projects Admin, for the City of New York, Rept. of official 

 Project No. 465-97-3-131, sponsored by Interstate Sanitation Comm., 264 p. 



As a minimum estimate 70,000 acres of tidal waters in the State produce 

 clams in such an abundance as to furnish an industry. A maximum estimate 

 of the value of these clams is $200,000 which gives an estimate of $3 an 

 acre. Thus, clammers , if they owned the ground and planted it with oysters, 

 could reap an income many times greater than they do now. The life-history 

 of Venus meraenaria is almost entirely unknown. - J.L.M. 



907 



Irukayama, K., et al. (other authors not cited). 1962. 



Studies on the origin of the causative agent of Minamata disease. 2. 



Comparison of the mercury compound in the shellfish from Minamata Bay with 



mercury compounds experimentally accumulated in normal shellfish. Kumamoto 



Med. J. 15: 1-12 (in English). Also issued as Japan. J. Hyg. 16: 467-475. 



Reports experiments on exposure of Venus japonica to 0.3 ppm of various 

 inorganic and organic mercury compounds for 4-12 days. Remarkable 

 concentration ability was observed, higher for alkyl mercury compounds than 

 for inorganic compounds. No organic Hg was found in Venus exposed to 

 inorganic compounds, which led the authors to conclude that organic Hg must 

 be accumulated directly from seawater. (From Keckes and Miettinen, 1972. 

 In Marine Pollution and Sea Life. Mario Ruivo (edj . Fishing News (Books) 

 Ltd., LondonJ - J.L.M. 



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