For example, only seven out of
ten microalgae species tested were ingested by larvae of the scallop,
Argopecten ventricosus, and of those, only five were digested (Lora-
Vilchis and Maeda-Martinez, 1997). Similarly, larvae of the winged
pearl oyster, Pteria sterna, were reported to digest only two of three
ingested species of microalgae from a total of ten species tested
(Martínez-Fernández et al., 2004)