Common names from other countries
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecologia
Bentopelágico; estuarina; intervalo de profundidade 0 - 55 m (Ref. 409). Tropical; 31°N - 32°S, 30°E - 138°E
Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Africa to Hong Kong and Australia.
Length at first maturity / Tamanho / Peso / Idade
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 3.2 cm BL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 409); 4.8 cm BL (female)
Rostrum, which has two dorsal denticles or teeth, is shorter than eyes. Elongated first 3 pereiopods and no fourth and fifth pereiopods. Larger female than males. Color: in life, whole body almost transparent. Milky or yellowish when dead.
Marketed either dried, boiled, salted, fermented, fresh, or processed in other ways; consumed locally in the form of seasoning (shrimp paste/sauce) (Ref. 409). Planktonic in life. Inhabits estuarine waters with mangroves (Ref. 374). Marine or brackish, but usually brackish and fished in the intertidal zone, estuaries (Ref. 409) and mangroves (Refs. 409, 121475). In general, it is a zooplanktivorous omnivore, wherein it primarily feeds on copepods, ostracods, other crustaceans, and molluscan veligers. It is observed to forage intensively after midnight (Ref. 104021). Omnivorous suspension feeder (Ref. 105380).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturidade | Reprodução | Desova | Ovos | Fecundidade | Larvas
Members of the order Decapoda are mostly gonochoric. Mating behavior: Precopulatory courtship ritual is common (through olfactory and tactile cues); usually indirect sperm transfer.
Pérez Farfante, I. and B. Kensley. 1997. (Ref. 75620)
Categoria na Lista Vermelha da IUCN (Ref. 130435)
Categoria CITES (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Utilização humana
Pescarias: espécies comerciais
FAO - pescarias: landings | FishSource |
Ferramentas
Fontes da internet
Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature
(Ref.
115969): 24.8 - 29.1, mean 28.3 (based on 1292 cells).
Resiliência
Elevada, tempo mínimo de duplicação da população menor que 15 meses (K=1.2).