Common names from other countries
Classification / Names / Names
Namen | Synonyme | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ökologie
; tiefenbereich 0 - 24 m (Ref. 107695). Tropical
Western Indian Ocean.
Length at first maturity / Size / Gewicht / Alter
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Minimum depth from Ref. 1726. Intertidal to shallow subtidal. Found under medium-sized granite rocks or dead coral slabs, slightly buried in coarse sand (Ref. 1726). Most chitons are microphagous feeders that consume fine algae and other organisms they scrape via their radula (Ref. 833).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Geschlechtsreife | Fortpflanzung | Ablaichen | Eier | Fecundity | Larven
Members of the class Polyplacophora are mostly gonochoric. Life cycle: Eggs hatch into lecitotrophic planktonic trocophore larvae (no veliger stage) which later metamorphose and settle on the bottom as young adults.
Dell'Angelo, B., A. Bonfitto, M. Taviani and B. Sabelli. 2003. (Ref. 703)
IUCN Rote Liste Status (Ref. 130435)
CITES Status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Bedrohung für Menschen
Harmless
Nutzung durch Menschen
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Länge-Länge
Morphologie
Larven
Dichte
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Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature
(Ref.
115969): 26.2 - 29, mean 27.5 (based on 543 cells).
Preiskategorie
Unknown.
