Malacostraca |
Decapoda |
Pasiphaeidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Bathypelagic; depth range 10 - 2000 m (Ref. 8126), usually 400 - 400 m. Subtropical; 76°N - 16°N, 75°W - 37°E
Arctic, Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean: from Boothia Peninsula, Canada to Mauritania, east to the Mediterranean.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 10.5 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 8136); 4.54 cm CL (female)
Benthopelagic. Juveniles carry out actual vertical migrations while adults undertake epibenthic movements along the bottom (Ref. 105772). Found in the continental shelf (Refs. 79119, 78232), upper and middle slope (Refs. 78232, 105341). Predatory activity occurs higher in the water column at night. Bases its diet on mesopelagic fishes and juvenile cephalopods, decapods, and euphausiids. However nocturnal diet is observed and includes gammarid amphipods, isopods, and macruran decapods (Ref. 105773).
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.
Hayashi, K.-I. 2006. (Ref. 8126)
IUCN Red List Status
(Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Human uses
Fisheries: commercial
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Estimates based on models
Resilience
High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (K=0.77-0.85).
Vulnerability
Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category
Unknown.