Oysters: Composition of the Larval Shell
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- 10 July 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 145 (3628) , 155-156
Abstract
The shell of the free-swimming veliger larval stage of the common North American oyster Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin, 1791) is composed of aragonite. This composition contrasts with that of the adult shell, which is composed mainly of calcite, the rhombohedral allomorph of calcium carbonate, and minor amounts of aragonite.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Aragonite and Calcite as Constituents of Adult Oyster ShellsScience, 1963
- Aragonite in the Resilium of OystersScience, 1962