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Table 1 Crassostrea gigas investigated for intestinal copepods with locality (see Fig. 1), date, number, shell length (mean ± standard deviation) prevalence (% of host individuals infected) and intensity (mean ± standard deviation)

From: Alien parasitic copepods in mussels and oysters of the Wadden Sea

Site

Date

Oysters n

Shell length (mm)

Prevalence (%)

Intensity ± SD

1

May 2008

30

95.3 ± 28.4

0.0

0.0

2

August 2007

19

80.8 ± 26.5

0.0

0.0

2

August 2008

55

91.0 ± 21.5

0.0

0.0

4

May 2008

10

128.1 ± 20.0

0.0

0.0

5

May 2008

30

107.0 ± 24.7

0.0

0.0

6

August 2008

30

106.2 ± 22.1

10.0

1.7 ± 0.6

  1. Only Mytilicola orientalis was found in C. gigas