Mauritia depressa, Depressed cowrie
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Mauritia depressa   (Gray, 1824)

Depressed cowrie

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Classification / Names Populärnamn | synonymer | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Gastropoda | Littorinimorpha | Cypraeidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / djupintervall / distribution range Ekologi

.  Tropical

Distribution Länder | FAO områden | Ekosystem | Förekomster | Utplanteringar

Indo-Pacific: East Africa to eastern Polynesia; absent from Australia, apart from some oceanic coral reefs off northwest Australia.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Könsmognad: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 6.0 cm ShH hane/ej könsbestämd; (Ref. 349); common length : 4.5 cm SHL hane/ej könsbestämd; (Ref. 349)

Biologi     Ordlista (t.ex. epibenthic)

Locally collected for food or for its shell (Ref. 349). Inhabits rather rough waters, under slabs and stones or in hollow corals near the wave swept edge. Active at night on algal crests and rock platforms. Also found in shallow subtidal zones (Ref. 349).

Life cycle and mating behavior Könsmognad | Reproduktion | Lek | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Members of the order Neotaenioglossa are mostly gonochoric and broadcast spawners. Life cycle: Embryos develop into planktonic trocophore larvae and later into juvenile veligers before becoming fully grown adults.

Main reference referenser | Koordinator | Medarbetare

Poutiers, J.M. 1998 Gastropods. p. 363-648. In Carpenter, K. E. and V. H. Niem. 1998. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Volume 1. Seaweeds, corals, bivalves, and gastropods. Rome, FAO. (Ref. 349)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)


CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless

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Könsmognad
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Lek
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Internet-källor

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, sök) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 25.4 - 29.5, mean 28.3 (based on 476 cells).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.