Heterocarpus vicarius   Fazon, 1893

Northern nylon 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 73 - 1454 m (Ref. 101379).  Tropical, preferred 23°C (Ref. 107945); 28°N - 17°S, 112°W - 72°W

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Eastern Pacific: southeast Gulf of California, Mexico to Mollendo, Peru.

Distribution in Guatemala possibly true based on native range although no reference for Guatemala has been found yet.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm 11.7  range ? - ? cm Max length : 11.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 8)

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Relatively common; trawled at depths of 73 to 760 m and caught at an even deeper water localities up to 1454 m (Ref. 101379).

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

Holthuis, L.B. 1980. (Ref. 8)

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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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 6.7 - 11.9, mean 9.3 (based on 54 cells).
Resilience (Ref. 69278): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (K=0.41-0.86).
Price category (Ref. 80766): High.
Nutrients: Calcium = 109 [35, 184] mg/100g; Iron = 1.59 [1.21, 1.97] mg/100g; Protein = 20.2 [19.2, 21.3] %; Omega3 = 0.285 [0.185, 0.386] g/100g; Selenium = 48.3 [-31.7, 128.3] μg/100g; VitaminA = 0 μg/100g; Zinc = 1.79 [1.17, 2.40] mg/100g (wet weight).