Polyplacophora | 
Chitonida | 
Mopaliidae
			
			
			
				Environment: milieu / climate zone / تغييرات عمق / distribution range				
				
					بوم شناسي				
				
			
			
				.  Temperate			
			
			
				
			
			
			
				Eastern Pacific.
			
			
			
			
			
				Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / سن
			
			
				بلوغ: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 7.6 cm TL جنس نر / بدون خواص جنسي; (مرجع 296)			
			
			
							
				
				
					
						Girdle:  Medium wide covered with thick recurved bristles.  Mucro:  Slightly posterior and depressed. Sculpturing of the central area of valves and jugum:  Radiated pitting which is finer at dorsal and gets larger towards the girdle.  Lateral area:  Flat and granular and appears nearly smooth; It is definable by a slightly raised rib.  Color of the valves:  Slate blue streaked with dark brown.  Color of the girdle:  Cream (Ref. 296).					
				
				
						
			
			
			
			
				
					Maximum Total Length:  7.6 m.  Depth:  Intertidal (Ref. 290).  Habitat:  Sides or bottoms of large boulders on open coast (Ref. 315). Occurs on the sides or bottoms of large boulders in the open coast (Ref. 315); mid to low tide zones from Alaska to Point Concepcion (Ref. 312).  Herbivorous, preferring diatoms and green alga, e.g., sea lettuce Ulva sp. (Ref. 312).				
			
			
			
			
			
				Life cycle and mating behavior				
					بلوغ | تولید مثل | تخم ریزی | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae				
			
			
				
					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.				
			
			
			
			
				مآخذ اصلی  				
					مراجع | هماهنگ كننده | همكاران
				
			
			
				Burghardt, G. and L. Burghardt 2006 West Coast Chitons. A Gallery of Worlwide Chitons: http://home.inreach.com/burghart/wcoast.html[accessed20/01/06] (مرجع 296)
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
					
						وضعيت در فهرست قرمز IUCN    
						 (مرجع 130435: Version 2025-1)
					
					
					
				
			
			
			
			
				وضعيت از نظر سايتس   (مرجع 108899)
			
			
				
					Not Evaluated				
			
			
			
			
			
			
				
					Not Evaluated				
			
			
			
			
			
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				استفاده انسانی  
			
			
							
			
			
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ابزارها
			
			
			
			
				
					اطلاعات بيشتر				
				
					 Population dynamicsرشد
Max. ages / sizes
Length-weight rel.
Length-length rel.
نوسانات طولی
Mass conversion
فراواني
  Life cycleتولید مثلبلوغFecundityتخم ریزیEggsنمو  تخمLarvae   PhysiologyOxygen consumption
  Human RelatedStamps, coins, misc.
  
			 
			
			
			
				منابع اينترنتي
			
			
			
			
			
				Estimates based on models
			
			
			
							
			
			
			
			
			
						
							
				
					
						Fishing Vulnerability  					
					
					
						Low vulnerability (10 of 100).					
				
						
						
			
									
						طبقه قيمت  					
					
					Unknown.