An Ecological Study of the Sea Mussel (Mytilus edulis Linn.)

1936 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Emerson Warren
Keyword(s):  
Mytilus Edulis ◽  
Ecological Study ◽  
Mussel Beds ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Tide Level ◽  
Passamaquoddy Bay

The distribution of the sea mussel beds of the Passamaquoddy bay area is almost exclusively intertidal. The experiments herein reported show that mussels grow most rapidly when constantly submerged. Their general absence below the low tide level, therefore, is attributed to the particular abundance in this region of the predatory fauna.

The effect of sediment type upon the position and depth at which byssal attachment occurs in Mytilus edulis

1983 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 641-651 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. A. Young
Keyword(s):  
Particle Size ◽  
Mytilus Edulis ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Sediment Type ◽  
Sediment Depth ◽  
Mussel Beds

The effect of changes in particle size and sediment depth on byssal attachment was assessed in laboratory experiments. Mytilus edulis did not attach byssus pads to mud or silt less than 0·85 mm in diameter, but did attach pads to gravel. On gravel more pads were attached to the substrate (mean = 19·44 threads/mussel/week) than to other mussels in the group (mean = 7·34 threads/mussel/week). Because no byssal attachment to the finer substrates occurred and preference for other mussels in the groups rather than the plastic of the holding tank was shown, clumps, characteristic of mussel beds in the field, were formed. The clumps became increasingly well defined as the depth of the substrate increased. Few clumps were formed on the coarsest substrate as a result of preferential byssal attachment to gravel particles.

Mussels and mussel beds (Mytilus edulis) as stabilizers of sedimentary environments in the intertidal zone

1998 ◽  
Vol 139 (1) ◽  
pp. 331-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter S. Meadows ◽  
Azra Meadows ◽  
Fraser J. C. West ◽  
Peter S. Shand ◽  
Masroor A. Shaikh
Keyword(s):  
Mytilus Edulis ◽  
Intertidal Zone ◽  
Mussel Beds ◽  
Sedimentary Environments

RHYTHMIC SEXUAL MATURITY AND SPAWNING OF CERTAIN BIVALVE MOLLUSKS

1932 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 255-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
HELEN I. BATTLE
Keyword(s):  
Mytilus Edulis ◽  
Germ Cells ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Tidal Cycle ◽  
Sexual Maturity ◽  
Mya Arenaria ◽  
Bivalve Mollusks ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Passamaquoddy Bay ◽  
New Moon

From the middle of June to the middle of September the germ cells of Mytilus edulis L. and Macoma baltica L. in Passamaquoddy bay mature during the new-moon spring tides and are spawned throughout the remainder of the lunar tidal cycle. The initiation of spawning may be due to increased temperature since the low water of the neaps occurs about midday when the mud flats are heated by the rays of the sun. Mya arenaria L. shows the same phenomenon to a lesser degree from mid-June through August. Yoldia sapotilla (Gould), a deep-water form, has a bimonthly spawning on the spring tides.

scholarly journals Evidence for the direct settlement of Mytilus edulis larvae on adult mussel beds

1988 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 103-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
D McGrath ◽  
PA King ◽  
EM Gosling
Keyword(s):  
Mytilus Edulis ◽  
Mussel Beds
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