Menippe mercenaria, Stone crab : fisheries
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Menippe mercenaria   (Say, 1818)

Stone crab

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

Malacostraca | Decapoda | Menippidae

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

Benthic; profondeur 0 - 60 m (Réf. 114309).  Tropical, preferred 25°C (Réf. 107945); 35°N - 18°N, 98°W - 71°W

Distribution Territories | Zones FAO | Écosystèmes | Occurrences | Introductions

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

Longueur à la première maturité / Taille / Poids / Âge

Maturité: Lm 6.6  range ? - ? cm

Description synthétique Morphologie

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.

Biologie     Glossaire (ex. épibenthique)

Occurs at depths down to 60 m (Ref. 114309). Burrows in mudflats just below low-tide mark, among rocks on jetties, on offshore reef areas, under rocks or coral heads and among dead shells or grass clumps (Ref. 367), burrows in seagrass beds, oyster reefs and crevices in rocks (Ref. 114309). Occasionally burrow in colonies. Tolerant to salinities considerably lower or higher than 35. Somewhat active both day and night, greatest activity observed during the evening before dark. Preys on oysters and other mollusks (Ref. 367).

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

Ovigerous females are known from May to September.

Référence principale Références | Coordinateur | Collaborateurs

Tavares, M. 2003 True Crabs. pp. 327-352. In Carpenter, K.E. (ed.) The living marine resources of the Western Central Atlantic. Volume1: introdution, molluscs, crustaceans, hagfishes, sharks, batoid fishes, and chimaeras. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Special PublicationNo. 5. Rome, FAO. pp. 1-600. (Réf. 367)

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: commercial
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Écologie trophique
Aliments (proies)
Composition du régime alimentaire
Consommation alimentaire
Prédateurs
Écologie
Dynamique des populations
Croissance
Âges / tailles maximales
Longueur-poids rel.
Rel. longueur-longueur.
Fréquences de longueurs
Conversion de masse
Abondance
Cycle de vie
Reproduction
Maturité
Fécondité
Frai
Œufs
Développement de l'œuf
Larves
Distribution
Territories
Zones FAO
Écosystèmes
Occurrences
Introductions
Physiologie
Consommation d'oxygène
Liées à l'homme
Timbres, pièces de monnaie, divers
Sensibilisation
Références

Sources Internet

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO - pêcheries: landings search; 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

Vulnérabilité de la pêche
(Réf. 71543)
(0 of 100).
Vulnérabilité climatique
(Réf. 125649)
High to very high vulnerability (67 of 100)
Catégorie de prix
(Réf. 80766):
Very high.
Nutrients
Calcium = 109 [35, 184] mg/100g; Iron = 1.59 [1.21, 1.97] mg/100g; Protein = 20.2 [19.2, 21.3] %; Omega3 = 0.285 [0.185, 0.386] g/100g; Selenium = 48.3 [-31.7, 128.3] μg/100g; VitaminA = 0 μg/100g; Zinc = 1.79 [1.17, 2.40] mg/100g (wet weight); based on nutrient studies.