Letters to Editor
nature 120, 653-654 (05 November 1927) | doi:10.1038/120653b0
The Habits and Economic Importance of the Rough Whelk-Tingle (Murex erinaceus)
J. H. ORTON
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IN 1925 I reported to an oyster company that “in 1924–25 the whelk-tingle (Ocinebra (Murex) erinacea) was very abundant and very destructive. In my experiment ‘A,’ fully half of the brood of 1924 were found bored by the whelk-tingle, and it was obvious that most of the young oysters had been attacked in the early summer of 1925, since many of those bored had put on new growth.”
