Observations on the probable effects of salinity on the spawning; development and setting of the Indian backwater oyster, Ostrea madrasensis Preston

The salinity of sea-water, like its temperature, is one of the abiotic factors having a remarka ble innuellce on the development of oysters as is well known from the work of Amemiya (1921. 1926 and 1928), Nelson ( 1921), Seno, Hor; and Kusakabe (1926), Hopkins (1931), Gaarder (1932, 1933), and Gaarder and Bjerkan (1934) on differ~nt species of European, Ja panese, Portuguese and American origin