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Reproductive Data for Dendropoma rhyssoconcha
egg diameter 0.315mm
reproductive season continuous, irregular, summer low
development direct (hatching as crawling juveniles); hatching size 0.58x0.44mm
occurrence subtidal fringing reef, northeastern side Coconut Island, Kaneohe Bay, Oahu
references 1) Hadfield et. al. 1972; 2) C. N. Hopper, in The Ecology and Reproductive Biology of Some Hawaiin Vermetid Gastropods, 1981; 3) J.B. Taylor in Planktonic Prosobranch Veligers of Kaneohe Bay, 1975

Phylogenetic Information
phylum Mollusca
class Gastropoda (subclass Prosobranchia)
order Neotaenioglossa
family Vermetidae
genus Dendropoma
species rhyssoconcha
reproduction method mantle brooding pattern