Gastropoda |
Siphonariida |
Siphonariidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Benthic. Tropical
Indo-Pacific: from East Africa to western Polynesia, north to Japan and south to Queensland.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 3.5 cm ShH male/unsexed; (Ref. 349); common length : 2.5 cm SHL male/unsexed; (Ref. 349)
Occasionally used as food by coastal populations in the Southeast Asian region (Ref. 349).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Simultaneous hermaphrodites (Ref. 833) and monaulic (Ref. 99836). It displays poecilogonony as its reproductive strategy (Ref. 99837).
Poutiers, J.M. 1998. (Ref. 349)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Human uses
Fisheries: subsistence fisheries
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Diet
Food consumption
Ration
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Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature
(Ref.
115969): 24.2 - 29.3, mean 27.5 (based on 1535 cells).
Vulnerability
Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category
Unknown.