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Acanthochitona viridis   (Pease, 1872)

Chiton
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

| Chitonida | Acanthochitonidae

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

.  Tropical

Distribuzione Stati | Aree FAO | Ecosystems | Presenze | Introduzioni

Eastern Central Pacific: Hawaii.

Length at first maturity / Size / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm

Biologia     Glossario (es. epibenthic)

Mainly lives on reef flats and tidepools. Prefers small depressions on limestone reef flats and holes or areas underneath the rubble of tidepools. Feeds by browsing on algae attached to hard substrates (Ref. 122680).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve

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 Bibliografia | Coordinatore | Collaboratori

Osorio, C. and V. Cantuarias. 1989. (Ref. 94138)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)


CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless

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Fonti Internet

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, ricerca) | Zoological Record

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