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Nephrops norvegicus   (Linnaeus, 1758)

Norway lobster

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Greece country information

Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
Abundance: | Ref:
Importance: | Ref:
Aquaculture: never/rarely | Ref:
Regulations: no regulations | Ref:
Uses: no uses
Comments: C: Refs. 4, 80054; M: Ref. 74504; O: Refs. 76721, 94757.
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/gr.html
National Fisheries Authority:
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Holthuis, L.B., 1991
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Havskräfta, ... more

Classification / Names / Names Nomi Comuni | Sinonimi | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS

> Decapoda (Lobster, shrimp and crabs) > Nephropidae (clawed crabs)

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

; distribuzione batimetrica 20 - 800 m (Ref. 441), usually 200 - 600 m (Ref. 88009).   Temperate, preferred 16°C (Ref. 107945); 72°N - 27°N, 25°W - 27°E

Distribuzione Stati | Aree FAO | Ecosystems | Presenze | Introduzioni

Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean: From Finnmark, Norway south to Libya west to the Canary Is. and east to Aegean Sea. Subtropical to polar.

Length at first maturity / Size / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm 3.2, range 2 - 5.5 cm Max length : 24.0 cm BL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 441); common length : 19.0 cm BL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 441)

Biologia     Glossario (es. epibenthic)

Total body length: 8 to 24 cm, usually between 10 to 20 cm (Ref. 4).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve

Ovigerous females are found practically throughout the year, the eggs laid around July are carried for about 9 months (Ref. 4). 1 brood per year (Ref. 81133); 1.6 cm postlarval size (Ref. 81161); 1 month of pelagic period (Ref. 81160).

Main reference Bibliografia | Coordinatore | Collaboratori

Holthuis, L.B. 1991. (Ref. 4)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 05 December 2009

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Human uses

Pesca: commerciale
FAO - pesca: landings, species profile | FIRMS (Stock assessments) | FishSource | Sea Around Us

Strumenti

E-book | Giuda pratica

Fonti Internet

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(pesca: species profile; publication : search) | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, ricerca) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 3.3 - 13.7, mean 7.8 (based on 273 cells).
Resilienza (Ref. 69278) Medio, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione 1.4 - 4.4 anni (K=0.03-0.44; tm=2).
Prior r = 0.50, 95% CL = 0.33 - 0.75, Based on 36 full stock assessments.
Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Moderate vulnerability (41 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Very high.