File:FMIB 48208 Principal enemy of the adult quahaug is the common winkle or cockle (Lunatia duplicata or heros), pictured at the right and left.jpeg

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Author
English: State of Massachusetts Fish and Game Commission
Description
English: Principal enemy of the adult quahaug is the common winkle or cockle (Lunatia duplicata or heros), pictured at the right and left in the illustration. In the corners are quahaug shells, through which a clean countersunk hole has been bored by this mollusk at the umbo. In the center is a starfish, the great pest of the oyster beds, and on rare occasions an enemy of the quahaugs.
  • Subject: Northern quahog, Cardiidae, Starfishes
  • Tag: Shellfish
Date 1912
date QS:P571,+1912-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
English: Freshwater and Marine Image Bank
Accession number
48208
Source/Photographer
English: Massachusetts. Commissioners on Fisheries and Game. (1912) Report Upon the Quahaug and Oyster Fisheries of Massachusetts, Boston, MA: Wright & Potter Printing Co.
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Public domain This is a photograph from the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank at the University of Washington. Materials in the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank are in the public domain. No copyright permissions are needed. Acknowledgement of the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank as a source for borrowed images is requested.

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