Gastropoda |
Anaspidea |
Notarchidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Benthic; depth range 2 - 8 m (Ref. 108348). Subtropical; 25°N - 4°N, 88°E - 51°E (Ref. 83435)
Indo-Pacific and Western Atlantic: South Africa, the Mascarenes to Japan across to the Sea of Cortez, Mexico.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 6.5 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 822)
Assumed maximum length from Ref. 822. Crawls around rocky areas and walls with good algae coverage (Ref. 822); found in sheltered pools and estuaries (Ref. 866). Lives and feeds on the blue-green algae Lyngbya majuscula (Ref. 108716).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Members of the order Anaspidea are mostly simultaneous hermaphrodites.
Debelius, H. 2001. (Ref. 844)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
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Age/Size
Growth
Length-weight
Length-length
Morphology
Larvae
Abundance
Internet sources
Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature
(Ref.
115969): 25.1 - 29, mean 28.3 (based on 586 cells).
Vulnerability
Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category
Unknown.