| a survey of some parasites and diseases of several species of bivalve mollusc in northern western australia. | pteriid oysters (pinctada maxima, pinctada margaritifera, pinctada albina, pteria penguin), rock oysters (saccostrea glomerata, saccostrea cuccullata, saccostrea echinata) and representatives of other taxa (malleidae, isognomonidae, pinnidae, mytilidae, spondylidae, arcidae) from the wild, and 4670 hatchery-reared p. maxima, from northern and western australia, were examined for parasites and diseases. rickettsiales-like inclusions and metacestodes of tylocephalum occurred in most species. intra ... | 2000 | 10785864 |