Reproductive Data for Dendropoma psarocephala

egg diameter	0.300 mm
reproductive season	1) continuous, irregular, summer low 2) August
development	direct (hatching as crawling juveniles); hatching size 0.50x0.33mm
occurrence	subtidal fringing reef, northeastern side Coconut Island, Kaneohe Bay
references	1) Hadfield et. al. 1972; 2) C. N. Hopper, in The Ecology and Reproductive Biology of Some Hawaiin Vermetid Gastropods, 1981; 2) 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	psarocephala
reproduction method	mantle brooding pattern