Reproductive Data for Cypraea teres

egg diameter	-
reproductive season	May
development	metamorphosis occurs when 5 1/2 whorls are complete; length: 1155 um; width: 1385 um
occurrence	1) under and on coral heads in very shallow water; from six to nine feet deep in dead coral; 2) plankton in Kaneohe Bay Sampan Channel
references	1) E. A. Kay in The Systematics of the Cypraeidae Elucidated by a Study of Cypraea caputserpentis and Related Forms, 1957; 2) J.B. Taylor in Planktonic Prosobranch Veligers of Kaneohe Bay, 1975

Phylogenetic Information

phylum	Mollusca
class	Gastropoda (subclass Prosobranchia)
order	Neotaenioglossa
family	Cypraeidae
genus	Cypraea
species	teres
reproduction method	sexual