Gastropoda |
Trochida |
Trochidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Benthic. Tropical
Western Central Pacific: Philippines and Indonesia.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 1.8 cm SHH male/unsexed; (Ref. 821)
Shell is small, triangulate in outline with a tall, sharply acute spire. Whorls are sculptured with fine spiral grooves and a pronounced presutural ridge on each whorl. Base is more course and spirally striate, with axial threads in the interspaces. Aperture is ovate with a small umbilical tooth.
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Members of the order Archaeogastropoda are mostly gonochoric and broadcast spawners. Life cycle: Embryos develop into planktonic trocophore larvae and later into juvenile veligers before becoming fully grown adults.
Springsteen, F.J. and F.M. Leobrera. 1986. (Ref. 821)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Human uses
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Vulnerability
Low vulnerability (10 of 100).