Reproductive Data for Crucibulum spinosum (Sowerby)
egg diameter | - |
reproductive season | summer |
development | eggs are incubated; after 2-3 weeks larvae hatch as veliger |
occurrence | Indo-Pacific; Introduced to Hawaii; sublittoral rocks and dead coral; in Hawaii found in Kaneohe Bay |
references | J.B. Taylor in Planktonic Prosobranch Veligers of Kaneohe Bay, 1975 |
Phylogenetic Information
phylum | Mollusca |
class | Gastropoda (subclass Prosobranchia) |
order | Neotaenioglossa |
family | Calyptreidae |
genus | Crucibulum |
species | spinosum (Sowerby) |
reproduction method | sexual, eggs deposited on rockes and brooded under mantle near head |