Limulus polyphemus, Horseshoe crab : fisheries

Limulus polyphemus   (Linnaeus, 1758)

Horseshoe crab

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Limulus polyphemus

Классификация / Names народные названия | синонимы | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Merostomata | Xiphosura | Limulidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / пределы глубины / distribution range экология

; пределы глубины 3 - 11 m (ссылка 76).  Tropical, preferred 24°C (ссылка 107945)

Distribution страны | регионы FAO | Ecosystems | места находок | интродукции

Western Atlantic: from Maine, USA to Mexico.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Возраст

половая зрелость: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 60.0 cm TL самец/пол неопределен; (ссылка 82); наибольший вес (опубликованные данные): 1.8 kg (ссылка 82); наибольший возраст (опубликованны данные): 20 годы (ссылка 99652)

биология     глоссарий (например epibenthic)

The males are approximately 1/3 the size of the females (sexual dimorphism) (Ref. 83). Lives in shallow waters, with sandy or muddy bottoms (Ref. 76). Found in intertidal and offshore areas (Ref. 1131). The horseshoe crab feeds at night on polychaete worms such as Cerebratulus, Nereis, and Cistenides (Ref. 76, 77), small mollusks, and seaweed (algae) found in the sandy ocean bottom (Ref. 76). Food is picked up by the chelicerae and passed back to the bristle bases, where it is "chewed." The food is then moved forward to the mouth (Ref. 75). It digs its food from sediments, grasping the prey with its legs. The prey is moved to the gnathobases where it is crushed before being pushed forward toward the mouth (Ref. 77). A life span of about 20 to 40 years (Ref. 78). Its predators are loggerhead turtles, pufferfish, leopard sharks and sea gulls (Ref. 82).

Life cycle and mating behavior половая зрелость | размножение | нерест | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

They reproduce with the use of the first pair of the six, flap-like appendages on the underside of the abdomen acts as a cover for the genital pore. The egg or sperm are released through this pore during spawning (Ref. 75). These eggs are fertilized by sperm released by an attached male and by one or more satellite males that typically congregate around the nesting pair (Ref. 81). While nesting, females bury themselves in the sediment near the water's edge and lay a series of discrete egg clusters, each containing 2,000-20,000 eggs (Ref. 80).

Основная ссылка ссылки | координатор | соавторы

Lee, C.N. and B. Morton 2005 Experimentally derived estimates of growth by juvenile Tachypleus tridentatus and Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda (Xiphosura) from nursery beaches in Hongkong. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 318:39-49. (ссылка 1131)

Статус Красного Списка МСОП (ссылка 130435: Version 2025-1)

  уязвимый; см. Красный Список МСОП (VU) (A3bd); Date assessed: 17 February 2016

Статус СИТЕС (ссылка 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (ссылка 116361)

Not Evaluated

Угроза для людей

  Harmless

Использование человеком

рыболовство: коммерческий
FAO - рыболовство: landings | FIRMS (Stock assessments) | FishSource | Sea Around Us

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ресурсы в Интернет

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(рыболовство: ; publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (Геном, Нуклеотид) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Вперёд, поиск) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 12.5 - 28, mean 26.7 (based on 417 cells).
Fishing Vulnerability (ссылка 71543): High to very high vulnerability (66 of 100).
Climate Vulnerability (ссылка 125649): High to very high vulnerability (75 of 100).
Категория цены (ссылка 80766): Low.
Nutrients :  Calcium = 126 [75, 177] mg/100g; Iron = 4.79 [1.67, 7.92] mg/100g; Protein = 16.6 [15.4, 17.8] %; Omega3 = 0.331 [0.263, 0.400] g/100g; Selenium = 57.8 [48.5, 67.2] μg/100g; VitaminA = 0 μg/100g; Zinc = 1.97 [0.92, 3.02] mg/100g (wet weight); based on nutrient studies.