Property:Definition
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Lance shaped and usually elongate (Brusca, 1980). +
>512 mm; likely to be stable (Hiscock, 1996). +
Large colonies of indivduals cooperating for mutual benefit, made up of thousnads or more individuals, often with a dominant matriach, e.g. social incests , bees etc. +
An independent, motile, developmental stage of an organism, that differs in morphology and ecology from the juvenile or adult stage, and undergoes a metamorphosis to become the juvenile or adult (adapted from Ruppert & Barnes, 1994; Barnes <em>et al.</em>, 2006). +
Description of how the larvae or juveniles develop into adults +
Description of the period of time over which larval settlement occurs. +
Duration of the larval stage recorded in days or months. +
A description of the preferred substratum for larval settlement +
A taxon is Least Concern when it has been evaluated against the criteria and does not qualify for critically Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable or Near Threatened. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category. +
Development at the expense of internal resources (i.e. yolk) provided by the female (Barnes ''et al.'', 1993). +
The stages an organism passes through between the production of gametes by one generation and production of gametes by the next generation (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998) +
Traits that describe the life history characteristics of an organism +
Stone-boring; an organism that burrows into rock. +
A species which is observed to have a patchy distribution in terms of being common only at some locations. +
Three location types have been recorded to describe the native range and known introduced range of the species +
Specialist - filter feeding organ e.g. brachiopods, phoronids, bryozoans +
Where the species reduces aquaculture harvest or commercial/recreational gain. +
Where the species degrades amenities associated with public/tourist sites. +
