Pleuroploca gigantea, Florida horse conch : fisheries
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Pleuroploca gigantea   (Kiener, 1840)

Florida horse conch

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Classification / Names आम नाम | उपशब्द | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Gastropoda | Neogastropoda | Fasciolariidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / गहराई सीमा / distribution range पारिस्थितिकी

.  Tropical

Distribution देश | ऐफ ऐ ओ क्षेत्र | Ecosystems | संयोग | भूमिका

Western Central Atlantic.

Length at first maturity / आकार / Weight / Age

परिपक्व अवधि: Lm ?  range ? - ? cmCommon length : 60.0 cm TL पुल्लिंग / अलिंग; (संदर्भ 355)

Short description आकृति विज्ञान

Shell large, with up to 10 whorls. Sculpture of about 5 to 7 spiral cords and weak axial ribs that sometimes form knobs on whorl shoulders. Columella with 3 plications. Periostracum sometimes flaky. Colour: shell greyish white to salmon orange, usually orange in younger specimens; periostracum dark brown to light tan.

जीवविज्ञान     शब्द संग्रह (उदाहरणार्थ epibenthic)

This the largest gastropod in American waters, and the Florida State Shell. A variety lacking nodules known as 'knob less wonder' can be found in southwestern Florida. Broad, muscular foot is locally consumed in northwestern Mexico (Ref. 355). Intertidal to shallow subtidal, on sand and mud flats and seagrass beds (Ref. 355).

Life cycle and mating behavior परिपक्व अवधि | पुनरुत्पत्ति | मछलीऔ का अंडे देना | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

This species is a non-broadcast spawner. Life cycle does not include trocophore stage. Also Ref. 833.

Main reference संदर्भ | संयोजक | सहयोगीयो

Leal, J.H. 2003 Gastropods. p. 99-147. In Carpenter, K.E. (ed.). The living marine resources of the Western Central Atlantic. Volume 1: Introduction, molluscs, crustaceans, hagfishes, sharks, batoid fishes, and chimaeras. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Special Publication No. 5. 1600p. (संदर्भ 355)

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

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (संदर्भ 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (संदर्भ 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses

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Trophic Ecology
Food items (preys)
संघटक आहार
आहार खपत
परभक्षी
पारिस्थितिकी
पारिस्थितिकी
Population dynamics
बाढ़
Max. ages / sizes
Length-weight rel.
Length-length rel.
Length-frequencies
Mass conversion
बहुतायत
Life cycle
पुनरुत्पत्ति
परिपक्व अवधि
Fecundity
मछलीऔ का अंडे देना
Eggs
Egg development
Larvae
Distribution
देश
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Ecosystems
संयोग
भूमिका
Physiology
Oxygen consumption
Human Related
Stamps, coins, misc.
Outreach
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Taxonomy
आम नाम
उपशब्द
आकृति विज्ञान
तस्वीरे
संदर्भ
संदर्भ

इंटरनेट स्रोत

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, खोज) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Price category (संदर्भ 80766): Unknown.

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