“…Germinomas have, however, reached high prevalences in populations of hard clams, Mercenaria spp. (Yevich and Barry, 1969;Barry and Yevich, 1972;Hesselman et al, 1988;Bert et al, 1993;Eversole and Heffernan, 1995;Arnold et al, 2002Arnold et al, , 2004; softshell clams, M. arenaria (Barry and Yevich, 1975;Gardner et al, 1991;Barber, 1996;Barber et al, 2002); and the blue mussel, M. galloprovincialis (Alonso et al, 2001;Ruiz et al, 2011Ruiz et al, , 2013c (Fig. 6).…”