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- Mopaliidae
- Chitonida
- Polyplacophora
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Placiphorella atlantica (Verrill & Smith, 1882)
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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. Polar
Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions
Indo-Pacific and North Atlantic Ocean.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm Max length : 3.8 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 283)
Short description Morphology
Broadly ovate. Valve Color: white, light straw-yellow or pale brown. Girdle: Broadly expanded at anterior end and pale yellowish in color; densely covered with small, elongate, spicules and sparsely scattered large bristles covered with slender, smooth, sharp spicules (Ref. 283).
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)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
CMS (Ref. 116361)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
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BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, Search) | Zoological Record
Estimates based on models
Price category
(Ref. 80766):
Unknown.