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Menippe mercenaria   (Say, 1818)

Stone crab

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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United States (contiguous states) 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: Known from Texas to North Carolina (Ref. 367). C: Refs. 367, 114142; M: Ref. 367; O: Refs. 90722, 113777, 113788.
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html
National Fisheries Authority: http://www.nmfs.gov
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Tavares, M., 2003
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Classification / Names / Names Tên thường gặp | Các synonym ( Các tên trùng) | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS

> Decapoda (Lobster, shrimp and crabs) > Menippidae (stone crabs)

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Sinh thái học

; Mức độ sâu 0 - 60 m (Ref. 114309).   Tropical, preferred 25°C (Ref. 107945); 35°N - 18°N, 98°W - 71°W

Sự phân bố Các nước | Các khu vực của FAO | Các hệ sinh thái | Những lần xuất hiện | Những chỉ dẫn

Western Central Atlantic: from Mexico to Turks and Caicos, then Cape Lookout North Carolina south to Jamaica.

Length at first maturity / Bộ gần gũi / Khối lượng (Trọng lượng) / Age

Maturity: Lm 6.6  range ? - ? cm

Short description Hình thái học

Carapace transversely oval, about 2.3 times as long as wide, convex, nearly smooth to unaided eye, minutely granulate and punctate; anterolateral margins (excluding outer orbital teeth) divided into 4 lobes, front (excluding inner orbital angles) with a median notch and a broad tri-lobate lobe on each side. Pincers large and heavy, unequal, nearly smooth; inside of hands with patch of fine, oblique, parallel striae; walking legs stout and hairy distally. Color: juveniles dark purplish blue, very young with legs banded cream and red and white spot on carpus of pincer. Older individual become dark brownish red to black or less mottled and spotted with dusky grey; fingers dark; walking legs with reddish and yellow bands.

Sinh học     Tự điển (thí dụ epibenthic)

Life cycle and mating behavior Chín muồi sinh dục | Sự tái sinh sản | Đẻ trứng | Các trứng | Sự sinh sản | Ấu trùng

Ovigerous females are known from May to September.

Main reference Các tài liệu tham khảo | Người điều phối | Người cộng tác

Tavares, M. 2003. (Ref. 367)

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


CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Human uses

Các nghề cá: Tính thương mại
FAO - Các nghề cá: landings | FishSource | Biển chung quanh ta

Các công cụ

Các nguồn internet

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Các nghề cá: ; publication : search) | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Cây Đời sống | Wikipedia (Go, tìm) | Tạp chí Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 23.5 - 28, mean 25.6 (based on 210 cells).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Very high.