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Acanthopleura granulata   (Gmelin, 1791)

West Indian fuzzy chiton

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Acanthopleura granulata  AquaMaps  Data sources: GBIF OBIS
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

| Chitonida | Chitonidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecología

; rango de profundidad 0 - 1 m (Ref. 83435).  Tropical

Distribución Países | Áreas FAO | Ecosistemas | Ocurrencias, apariciones | Introducciones

Western Central Atlantic.

Length at first maturity / Tamaño / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 10.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 289)

Biología     Glosario (por ej. epibenthic)

Maximum depth from Ref. 110502. Epibiotic (Ref. 110502). Intertidal; very common on open shore (Ref. 289); common in the zone between tides in the rocky coast, mainly on rocks of arenaceous; adheres with great force to rocks (Ref. 292); intertidal, spray zones of rocky shores (Ref. 2022, page 122).

Life cycle and mating behavior Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva

Members of the class Polyplacophora are mostly gonochoric. Life cycle: Eggs hatch into lecitotrophic planktonic trocophore larvae (no veliger stage) which later metamorphose and settle on the bottom as young adults.

Main reference Referencias | Coordinador | Colaboradores

Burghardt, G. and L. Burghardt. 2006. (Ref. 281)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

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Fuentes de Internet

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Árbol de la vida | Wikipedia (Go, búsqueda) | Expediente Zoológico

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 26.3 - 28.4, mean 27.3 (based on 199 cells).
Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.