Placiphorella stimpsoni, Veiled chiton

Placiphorella stimpsoni   (Gould, 1859)

Veiled chiton

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Polyplacophora | Chitonida | Mopaliidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Benthic.  Subtropical

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Northwest Pacific: Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 2.5 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 283)

Short description Morphology

Oval shaped; colored dirty white which is irregularly spotted or streaked with pink, brown, bluish-green and black. Girdle: Broadly extended at anterior end; color is creamy yellow to light brown blackish bands. Surface of girdle: Densely covered with minute, drop-shaped, pointed spicules, sparsely interspersed with long, smooth bristles which have long, stout brown or olivaceous spicules (Ref. 283).

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Found from intertidal to 10 m, on rocks (Refs. 289, 75835). Feed on a variety of algae and small invertebrates, especially crustaceans (Ref. 128661).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

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.

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Burghardt, G. and L. Burghardt 2006 Selected Chitons of Asia, Japan and Pacific region. A Gallery of Worldwide Chitons: http://home.inreach.com/burghart/asia.html[accessed20/01/06] (Ref. 283)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 20.4 - 21.2, mean 20.7 (based on 6 cells).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.

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