Gastropoda |
Trochida |
Trochidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Benthic. Tropical
Western Central Pacific: Philippines.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 1.8 cm SHD male/unsexed; (Ref. 821)
Shell is small, discoidal, with a moderately tall straight-sided spire and a white, strongly convex umbilical button. Whorl surfaces are smooth with obsolete spiral and arcuate axial scratches and a weak concave trough below the body whorl suture. Aperture is elongate and smooth within. Whorl surfaces has black quadrangular dots in spiral lines, a black subsutural band and a black and cream-striped periphery.
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).