Reproductive Data for Serpulorbis variabilis

egg diameter	1) 0.19 mm; 2) 190 um
reproductive season	1) continual, summer peak; 2) peak January, March, August
development	1) indirect (hatch as veligers); 48 capsules/female, 240 eggs/capsule, nurse eggs yolk form; 2) hatching size 290x390 um
occurrence	1) isolated basalt boulders e.g., Maile Point, Oahu; 2) Seaward portion of Kaneohe Bay
references	1) Hadfield et. al. 1972 in 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	Serpulorbis
species	variabilis
reproduction method	sexual