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Reproductive Data for Hastula albula
egg diameter -
reproductive season August and September
development veligers hatch when 1 1/2 to 2 whorls are complete, add 3 1/2 additional whorls while planktonic, settle out when they are 1.1-1.4 mm in length and have completed five whorls
occurrence plankton
references J.B. Taylor in Planktonic Prosobranch Veligers of Kaneohe Bay, 1975

Phylogenetic Information
phylum Mollusca
class Gastropoda (subclass Prosobranchia)
order Neogastropoda
family Terebridae
genus Hastula
species albula
reproduction method sexual