Bathynomus giganteus, Giant isopod
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Bathynomus giganteus   Milne-Edwards, 1879

Giant isopod

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Bathynomus giganteus  AquaMaps  Data sources: GBIF OBIS
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Classification / Noms Noms communs | Synonymes | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Malacostraca | Isopoda | Cirolanidae

Environnement : milieu / zone climatique / profondeur / gamme de distribution Écologie

Bathydémersal; profondeur 310 - 2300 m (Réf. 3113), usually 365 - 730 m (Réf. 80749).  Deep-water

Distribution Territories | Zones FAO | Écosystèmes | Occurrences | Introductions

Indo-West Pacific and Western Atlantic.

Longueur à la première maturité / Taille / Poids / Âge

Maturité: Lm 18.0  range ? - ? cm Max length : 50.0 cm TL mâle / non sexé; (Réf. 99323)

Description synthétique Morphologie

Body depressed without distinct carapace. First thoracic segment fused with head. Sessible eyes; uniramous antennules with reduced exopodites.. First pair of thoracic appendages specialized as maxilliped; other thoracic appendages without exopodites. Shortened abdomen with segments often fused into caudal shield. Pleopods biramous, with flat rami serving as gills. Uropods and telson form fan-like fin, legs natatory.

Biologie     Glossaire (ex. épibenthique)

Largest known isopod. Inhabits the upper and mid slopes of the continental shelf. Bycatch of baited traps (Ref. 80748). This species has mouthparts which are highly adapted to cut and ingest large pieces of food, a large and distensible gut for maximum food ingestion as well as the capacity to store large amounts of lipids in the hepatopancreas (Ref. 80748). Maximum depth range from Ref. 111151. Believed to be a scavenger because of its high incidence in bycatch of trap fisheries (e.g., golden crab, Chaceon fenneri, trap fishery in Northern Gulf of Mexico; see Ref. 80748) (Ref. 3113).

Cycle de vie et comportement reproducteur Maturité | Reproduction | Frai | Œufs | Fécondité | Larves

Oviposition in females preceded by parturial molt; functional form of oostegites obtained; females can grow between 1-3 cm BL in first parturial molt; 1 or more pre-parturial molts between the onset of ovarian maturity and first parturial molt.

Référence principale Références | Coordinateur | Collaborateurs

Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley and S. Shilling 1995 World list of marine, freshwater and terrestrial crustacea isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA. Http://www.nmnh.si.edu/iz/isopod/ [Accessed 07/03/01]. (Réf. 3113)

Statut dans la liste rouge de l'IUCN (Réf. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))

  Non évalué 

statut CITES (Réf. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Réf. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Menace pour l'homme

Utilisations par l'homme

Pêcheries: sans intérêt
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Cycle de vie
Reproduction
Maturité
Fécondité
Frai
Œufs
Développement de l'œuf
Larves
Physiologie
Consommation d'oxygène
Liées à l'homme
Timbres, pièces de monnaie, divers
Sensibilisation
Références

Sources Internet

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO - Publication: search | Fishipedia | GenBank (génôme, nucléotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Arbre de Vie | Wikipedia (aller à, chercher) | Zoological Record

Estimations basées sur des modèles

Résilience
(Ref. 69278):
Haut, temps minimum de doublement de population inférieur à 15 mois (K=0.74)
Vulnérabilité de la pêche
(Réf. 71543)
Low to moderate vulnerability (27 of 100).
Catégorie de prix
(Réf. 80766):
Unknown.