An estimator of episodic mortality in bivalves with an application to sea scallops (Placopecten magellanicus)

Long‐term epidemiological study of disseminated neoplasia of cockles in Galicia (NW Spain): temporal patterns at individual and population levels, influence of environmental and cockle‐based factors and lethality

“…clappers or gaping, still hinged, paired shells) (Walter et al . ; Mann et al . ) allowed detecting a significant association between DN severity and cockle mortality in Misela.…”

“…The procedure of estimating natural mortality through assessing the changes in abundance of recently dead animals (i.e. clappers or gaping, still hinged, paired shells) (Walter et al 2007;Mann et al 2009) allowed detecting a significant association between DN severity and cockle mortality in Misela. Consistently, the highest mortality corresponded to cockles of the size group (group II) with the highest DN prevalence and severity.…”

Cosmopolitan Distribution of Endozoicomonas-Like Organisms and Other Intracellular Microcolonies of Bacteria Causing Infection in Marine Mollusks

“…In IMCs infecting mytilid species in Chile, a symbiotic relationship was then suggested (Lohrmann et al, 2019). On the other hand, IMC infections directly or indirectly associated with mortality have also been reported in the United States, infecting the sea scallop Placopecten magellanicus (Gulka et al, 1983;Walter et al, 2007), the Pacific razor clam Siliqua patula (Elston, 1986) and the abalone Haliotis rufescens (Moore et al, 2000); in France and the United Kingdom (UK) infecting the king scallop Pecten maximus (Le Gall et al, 1988;Cano et al, 2018); in the Philippines and the Federated States of Micronesia infecting the giant clam Hippopus hippopus (Norton et al, 1993); in China infecting the Suminoe oyster Crassostrea ariakensis and the blood clam Tegillarca granosa (Wu and Pan, 2000;Zhu et al, 2012); in Spain, infecting the banded carpet shell Polititapes rhomboides (Villalba et al, 1999); and in New Zealand infecting the toheroa Paphies ventricosa and the tuatua Paphies subtriangulata (Taylor, 2017a,b).…”