Reproductive Data for Vermetus alii

egg diameter	0.225 mm
reproductive season	1) continuous; 2) seasonal, brooding 7 months, spring high, asynchronous
development	indirect (hatch as veligers); hatching size 0.43x0.34mm
occurrence	subtidal fringing reef northeastern side Coconut Island; Kaneohe Bay and around the coastline of 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	Vermetus
species	alii
reproduction method	mantle brooding pattern