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Mytilida |
Mytilidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecologia
; distribuzione batimetrica 0 - 66 m (Ref. 348). Tropical
Indo-Pacific: from East Africa, to eastern Polynesia; north to Japan and south to southwest Australia, Queensland, and New Caledonia.
Length at first maturity / Size / Peso / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm Max length : 7.5 cm SHL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 348); common length : 5.0 cm SHL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 348)
Boring in soft rocks and dead coral or lithothamnion. Littoral and sublittoral to a depth of at least 66 m. Sometimes found burrowing in massive coral heads, but the burrow opening is always located in those portions which lack living polyps (Ref. 348).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve
Members of the class Bivalvia are mostly gonochoric, some are protandric hermaphrodites. Life cycle: Embryos develop into free-swimming trocophore larvae, succeeded by the bivalve veliger, resembling a miniature clam.
Poutiers, J.M. 1998. (Ref. 348)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
Pesca: commerciale
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Strumenti
Informazioni ulteriori
Age/SizeAccrescimentoLength-weightLength-lengthMorfologiaLarveAbbondanza
Fonti Internet
Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature
(Ref.
115969): 24.2 - 29, mean 28 (based on 1552 cells).
Vulnerability
Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
