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Created: 2019-09-04T12:02:37

spat  

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  • Information Fertilized shellfish larvae, e.g. of oysters or mussels. Spat commence life as free-swimming individuals in the plankton (the veliger stage), then settle onto suitable substrates (a spatfall). The term is also used to indicate shellfish larvae that have attached to some hard object.

    Created: 1/15/21

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