“…for Styela plicata, Crassostrea virginica). Larval predation by benthic invertebrates, including oysters, mussels and other bivalves, brachiopods, barnacles, hydroids, sponges, polychaetes, and amphipods, is sometimes great (see Mileikovsky, 1974 for review of early references; Timko, 1979;Commito, 1982;Oliver et al, 1982;Ambrose, 1984;Barange, 1988). These invertebrates in nature have been reported to prey on larvae of molluscs, barnacles, anneiids, shrimps, echinoderms, bryozoans and ascideans, but not on crab larvae.…”