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Cancer pagurus   Linnaeus, 1758

Edible crab

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Common names: [No common name]
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Uses: no uses
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Classification / Names / Names Nomi Comuni | Sinonimi | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS

> Decapoda (Lobster, shrimp and crabs) > Cancridae (rock crabs)

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

; salmastro; distribuzione batimetrica 0 - 200 m (Ref. 435), usually 6 - 40 m (Ref. 435).   Temperate, preferred 12°C (Ref. 107945)

Distribuzione Stati | Aree FAO | Ecosystems | Presenze | Introduzioni

Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean: from northwest Morocco to Atlantic coast of Europe.

Length at first maturity / Size / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm 11.0  range ? - ? cm Max length : 20.0 cm CL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 435)

Biologia     Glossario (es. epibenthic)

This is the most important edible crab fishery in Europe (Ref. 2762). Maximum depth from Ref. 106870.

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

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 Bibliografia | Coordinatore | Collaboratori

Fischer, W., G. Bianchi and W.B. Scott (eds.). 1981. (Ref. 435)

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


CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Human uses

Pesca: commerciale
FAO - pesca: landings, species profile | FishSource | Sea Around Us

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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): 8.1 - 12.5, mean 10.4 (based on 518 cells).
Resilienza (Ref. 69278) Alto, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione meno di 15 mesi (K=0.24-0.46).
Prior r = 0.46, 95% CL = 0.31 - 0.69, Based on 2 data-limited stock assessments.
Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Low to moderate vulnerability (26 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Very high.