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Girdle: Medium wide with smooth, compact, solid, oval scales. Mucro: Central and low. Central areas: Narrow, parallel riblets with faint netting between. Lateral areas: Sharply defined having radian rows of pustules. Tail valve: Radially riblets posterior of murco and netting anteriorly. Head valve: Radially ribbed. Color of shell: Ranges from orange-red to claret-red or dull green sometimes with white markings. Girdle color: Similar in color to the valves (Ref. 296).
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.