Ischnochiton comptus   (Gould, 1859)

Fancy chiton

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

| Chitonida | Ischnochitonidae

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

.  Subtropical

Distribuzione Stati | Aree FAO | Ecosystems | Presenze | Introduzioni

Western Pacific: Japan, south to the Philippines.

Length at first maturity / Size / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 2.5 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 283)

Short description Morfologia

Valves broad; mostly light grayish brown; variously blotched with white, cream, pink, reddish chestnut or blackish brown; some specimens are olive colored mottled with white. Valve surface microgranulose, sculptured with numerous weak, glossy, radiating riblets. Girdle scaly and colored in alternating yellowish and grayish or brownish bands.

Biologia     Glossario (es. epibenthic)

Found from intertidal to 50 m, on rocks and gravel (Ref. 75835). Also found under stones, just before Sargassum (Ref. 128661).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve

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 Bibliografia | Coordinatore | Collaboratori

Burghardt, G. and L. Burghardt. 2006. (Ref. 283)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless

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Strumenti

E-book | Giuda pratica

Informazioni ulteriori

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Ecosystems
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Introduzioni
Stocks
Ecologia
Dieta
Prede
Nomi Comuni
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Predatori
Riproduzione
Maturità
Deposizione
Fecundity
Uova
Egg development
Age/Size
Accrescimento
Length-weight
Length-length
Morfologia
Larve
Abbondanza
Bibliografia
Mass conversion
Collaboratori
Immagini

Fonti Internet

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, ricerca) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.