Word: limpet
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...freeze in 1947 damaged the beds in the heart of the oyster country at Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex. Senior Naturalist Knight Jones of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries reported ruefully: "Mortality was 90% in the Crouch." The U.S. invaders were two snail-like creatures Railed the American slipper limpet and the American whelk tingle, which bore through the shells and eat the young oysters. The whelks and limpets stowed away when the British imported* young U.S. oysters to fatten in British oyster beds. The U.S. oysters fatten fast, but do not multiply; they find the British coastal waters...
...anyone in Hollywood, the explanation was superfluous. At 9:30 each weekday morning, every Hollywood press-agent who values his professional life dials Crestview 1-4222, the Beverly Hills home and office of Columnist Parsons. However long it takes, he clings to the phone like a limpet until he gets through to her, for he must show his good faith. If he doesn't, Louella may take Borgia vengeance...
Exactly that has now been done by one Captain Leonard F. Plugge who calls his lively chain International Broadcasting Co., in limpet-like approximation to the name of His Majesty's Government's stuffy British Broadcasting Co.* Fortnight ago President Plugge sent Vice President Frank Lamping to storm Manhattan, and U. S. exporters to Great Britain found themselves signing on dotted lines, fascinated by the prospect of having their U. S. products hawked in England by voices from Paris, Madrid and even Luxembourg...
Councillor Henri Espadrille (consulting a dictionary): "The snail is a castropod mollusk, or shellfish (which are not fish), like the whelk, the slug, the mussel, the limpet, the oyster. Messieurs, we can regulate the snail as seafood, for he is really an oyster...
Whispering reporters discovered that a "spatfall" is a crop of oysters larvae; that the slipper limpet, a small marine gastropod mollusk with only one valve, dearly loves to feed on the tender young of British oysters...