Reproductive Data for Dendropoma meroclista

egg diameter	1) 0.270 mm; 2) 0.270 mm
reproductive season	continuous, summer low; 3) August through December
development	mixed (hatch as crawling juveniles or as veligers); hatching size 0.45x0.35mm; 3) some have planktonic veliger some do not
occurrence	subtidal fringing reef, northeastern side Coconut Island, Kaneohe Bay, Oahu. Isolated basalt boulders, Maile Point, 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	meroclista
reproduction method	mantle brooding pattern