Reproductive Data for Petaloconchus tokyoensis

egg diameter	0.08 mm
reproductive season	broad, irregular
development	direct (hatching as crawling juveniles); hatching size 0.68x0.44mm
occurrence	subtidal fringing reef, northeastern side Coconut Island, Kaneohe Bay, Oahu
references	Hopper, unpub. Obs. in C. N. Hopper, in The Ecology and Reproductive Biology of Some Hawaiin Vermetid Gastropods, 1981

Phylogenetic Information

phylum	Mollusca
class	Gastropoda (subclass Prosobranchia)
order	Neotaenioglossa
family	Vermetidae
genus	Petaloconchus
species	tokyoensis
reproduction method	shell brooding pattern