The Story of the Oyster: Its History, Growing, Cultivation and Pests in New South Wales |
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accumulated animal attached oysters Australian Museum boring whelks bottom Bream Sparus australis bundles catch of spat cilia Clyde River Common Borer Xymene considerable crab dead shells developing dredge beds Eagle Ray edge eggs ejected female fertilisation fish free-swimming George's River gills grow grown growth Hawkesbury River hinge inch inside the shell JAMES KENT laid large numbers leases left mantle left shell lime live oysters low-tide level Macleay River Magnified Mangrove Crab maturing ground maturing oysters means ment mouth mud oyster Mud Worm MUSEUM MAGAZINE natural numbers of oysters octopus oesophagus Ostrea angasi oyster cultivator oyster growers oyster larvae Oyster Ostrea angasi oyster shells palps pests Photo.-T. C. Roughley Port Hacking Port Stephens radula reproductive gland Rock Oyster Ostrea Scylla serrata slabs South Wales spawning species spermatozoa sperms stomach stones surface swimming organ Sydney T. C. Roughley tide levels timber umbo upwards velop velum WIRE-NETTING TRAYS young oysters