Plesionika edwardsii   (Brandt, 1851)

Soldier striped shrimp

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Malacostraca | Decapoda | Pandalidae

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

Benthic; depth range 50 - 850 m (Ref. 881).  Tropical; 46°N - 23°S, 119°E - 56°E

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Indo-Pacific, Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean: from Taiwan to New Caledonia, north to Italy and east to Reunion Island. Tropical and subtropical.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm 1.8  range ? - ? cm Max length : 3.4 cm CL male/unsexed; (Ref. 106434); 4 cm CL (female)

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Maximum depth from Ref. 97531. Maximum length based on occurrence (Ref. 106434); to be replaced with a better reference. Occurs in the continental shelf (Ref. 122888) and bathyal communities of the upper and middle slope (Refs. 113874, 102666), where it is dominant in the latter (Ref. 102666). Found in muddy and rocky bathyal substrates (Ref. 122889).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Members of the order Decapoda are mostly gonochoric. Mating behavior: Precopulatory courtship ritual is common (through olfactory and tactile cues); usually indirect sperm transfer.

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Pinho, M.R., J.M. Gonçalves, H.R. Martins and G.M. Menezes. 2001. (Ref. 2747)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses

Fisheries: commercial
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Internet sources

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, Search) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 8.8 - 21.2, mean 14.2 (based on 536 cells).
Resilience (Ref. 69278): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (K=0.65-0.84; tm=1.5).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Very high.