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Beyond the scarce available records on their occurrence in Class Bivalvia, statoliths are yet to be documented in the grooved carpet shell, <jats:italic>Ruditapes decussatus<\/jats:italic>, a species of high ecological and commercial value. An easy method for the extraction and processing of <jats:italic>R. decussatus<\/jats:italic> statoliths is described herein. The statolith growth was followed from the initial shell length (SL) of 2.5\u20133.5 mm (seed commercial size T1.5) for a period of 6 months in a nursery facility located in the Ria de Aveiro (an estuarine system in NW Portugal). The relationship between statolith diameter (StD) and SL follows the function StD<jats:italic>=<\/jats:italic>14.305 SL<jats:sup>0.254<\/jats:sup> (<jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>=173; <jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>=0.855, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>&lt;0.001). All statoliths observed showed similar morphostructure and general chemistry: hard, translucent spheres of crystalline calcium oxalate (whewellite), with a central nucleus delimited by a growth check of 6.7\u00b11.0 <jats:italic>\u00b5<\/jats:italic>m in diameter, possibly as a result of growth arrest during metamorphosis, a metamorphic ring, as described for their gastropod counterparts. Subsequent studies should validate this and will involve a search for the occurrence of additional checks that may potentially be present in older specimens and if they are, would open a new range of most promising applications for bivalve statoliths.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1017\/s143192761801245x","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,8,3]],"date-time":"2018-08-03T09:41:18Z","timestamp":1533289278000},"page":"244-249","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Morphology and Ontogeny of Statoliths in the Grooved Carpet Shell, <i>Ruditapes decussatus<\/i>"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"25","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4523-4399","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Susana","family":"Galante-Oliveira","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Ant\u00f3nio","family":"Pereira","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Tiago","family":"Baptista","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Fernanda","family":"Guimar\u00e3es","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Jorge","family":"Soares","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Jos\u00e9 Carlos","family":"Lopes","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Jorge","family":"Machado","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Carlos","family":"Barroso","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,8,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"S143192761801245X_ref32","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/BF00349302"},{"key":"S143192761801245X_ref33","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s00227-005-0072-8"},{"key":"S143192761801245X_ref3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/plankt\/19.12.1993"},{"key":"S143192761801245X_ref19","first-page":"1","article-title":"The American oyster Crassostrea virginica Gmelin","volume":"64","author":"Galtsoff","year":"1964","journal-title":"Fish Bull"},{"key":"S143192761801245X_ref14","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.saa.2015.06.009"},{"key":"S143192761801245X_ref35","volume-title":"The Canadian Oyster: Its Development, Environment and Culture","author":"Stafford","year":"1913"},{"key":"S143192761801245X_ref6","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S0022-5347(05)67327-2"},{"key":"S143192761801245X_ref20","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s002239900082"},{"key":"S143192761801245X_ref16","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s00227-015-2684-y"},{"key":"S143192761801245X_ref36","volume-title":"Physiology of Mollusca","author":"Wilbur","year":"1966"},{"key":"S143192761801245X_ref8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s00227-004-1516-2"},{"key":"S143192761801245X_ref2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1071\/MF04158"},{"key":"S143192761801245X_ref17","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jsb.2014.03.023"},{"key":"S143192761801245X_ref26","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1469-7998.1985.tb05633.x"},{"key":"S143192761801245X_ref29","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/0022-0981(81)90035-6"},{"key":"S143192761801245X_ref21","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1039\/C4CC02146K"},{"key":"S143192761801245X_ref23","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1039\/C1SM06232H"},{"key":"S143192761801245X_ref22","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3354\/meps12119"},{"key":"S143192761801245X_ref13","first-page":"53","article-title":"The floating upwelling system (FLUPSY) for breeding of Venerupis decussata (Linnaeus, 1758) juveniles in a coastal lagoon in Sardinia (Italy)","volume":"7","author":"Chessa","year":"2013","journal-title":"Transit Waters Bull"},{"key":"S143192761801245X_ref31","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s00227-006-0501-3"},{"key":"S143192761801245X_ref27","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1469-7998.1996.tb05318.x"},{"key":"S143192761801245X_ref18","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/mollus\/eyt028"},{"key":"S143192761801245X_ref24","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1021\/acs.chemmater.5b01642"},{"key":"S143192761801245X_ref5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.seares.2013.04.003"},{"key":"S143192761801245X_ref34","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/mollus\/eyi028"},{"key":"S143192761801245X_ref15","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/0022-0981(77)90051-X"},{"key":"S143192761801245X_ref4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1139\/f04-075"},{"key":"S143192761801245X_ref25","unstructured":"Maia F Gaspar M (2014) Case study: Clam harvesting in the Ria de Aveiro. 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