Reproductive Data for Littorina pintado (Wood)

egg diameter	2) capsule: dorsal/ventral: 180 um, lateral: 120 um, egg 75 um; 3) 200-250 um
reproductive season	continously
development	2) trochophore to veliger larvae; 3) planktonic veliger
occurrence	1) exposed basaltic boulders and tidepools e.g. Hanauma Bay, Kaena Point, Kahuku and Nanakuli, Oahu; 2) rocky, supratidal region, e.g. Hanauma Bay, Kaena Point, Kahuku Point (Oahu); 3) Sampan Channel, Dredged Island; Coconut Island; Oahu
references	E. A. Kay in The Systematics of the Cypraeidae Elucidated by a Study of Cypraea caputserpentis and Related Forms, 1957; 2) J.A. Whipple in The Comparative Ecology of the Hawaiian Littorina, 1967; 3) J.B. Taylor in Planktonic Prosobranch Veligers of Kaneohe Bay, 1975

Phylogenetic Information

phylum	Mollusca
class	Gastropoda (subclass Prosobranchia)
order	Neotaenioglossa
family	Littorinidae
genus	Littorina
species	pintado (Wood)
reproduction method	sexual