Callinectes marginatus (Milne-Edwards, 1861)

Marbled swimcrab

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

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Callinectes marginatus AquaMaps Data sources: GBIF OBIS

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

Malacostraca | Decapoda | Portunidae

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

донно-пелагический; солоноватоводный; пределы глубины 1 - 421 m (ссылка 105052). Tropical; 35°N - 31°S, 82°W - 14°E

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

Atlantic Ocean: from southeastern Florida to Brazil rarely in Bermuda and North Carolina, also in the Cape Verde Islands and along the African coast from Mauritania to Angola.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Возраст

половая зрелость: L_m ? range ? - ? cm Max length : 10.0 cm CW самец/пол неопределен; (ссылка 417)

In shallow littoral environments, typically from intertidal pools to 3 m (Ref. 105199). Inhabits shallow salt water on sandy or sandy mud bottom (Ref. 435) in brackish waters of estuaries (Ref. 417). Also found on algae and grass flats, sandy beaches, rocky pools, eroded coral bases (Ref. 105199), coral reef (Ref. 121879), oyster bars (Ref. 105199), and edge of mangroves (Refs. 105199, 121880). Rarely found in the open sea, from the intertidal to depth of 25 m (Ref. 121880). Associated with the barnacle Chelonibia sp. (Ref. 105200). In general, portunids are opportunistic omnivores with preference for animal prey (Ref. 100840).

Life cycle and mating behavior половая зрелость | размножение | нерест | 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.