Lepidochitona flectens   (Carpenter, 1864)


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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

| Chitonida | Tonicellidae

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

; rango de profundidad 0 - 40 m (Ref. 289).  Temperate

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

Eastern Pacific: Alaska, USA, Canada and Mexico.

Length at first maturity / Tamaño / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 2.5 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 296)

Short description Morfología

Girdle: Sandy with a minute spiculose fringe; opposite all or some sutural areas there is a long hair with fine recurved short hairs along its stem; Cream with orange or red blotches in color. Valves: Appear smooth to the naked eye but are minutely granular under a lens; scarlet red in color with 4 small blue spots on the posterior edge or mottled olivaceous green and maroon (Ref. 296).

Biología     Glosario (por ej. epibenthic)

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. 296)

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): 8.9 - 15.6, mean 10.3 (based on 52 cells).
Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.