Malacostraca | 
Decapoda | 
Polychelidae
			
			
			
				Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range				
				
					Ecology				
				
			
			
				Benthic; depth range 300 - 4000 m (Ref. 98471).  Tropical			
			
			
				
			
			
			
				Arctic, Indo-Pacific and Atlantic Ocean:  Australia, New Caledonia and Canada.
			
			
			
			
			
				Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
			
			
				Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 3.0 cm CL male/unsexed; (Ref. 79664); 4.94 cm CL (female)			
			
			
						
			
			
			
			
				
									
			
			
			
			
			
				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.				
			
			
			
			
			
				Richer de Forges, B., T.-Y. Chan, L. Corbari, R. Lemaitre, E. Macpherson, S.T. Ahyong and P.K.L. Ng 2012 The MUSORSTOM-TDSB deep-sea benthos exploration programme (1976-2012): An overview of crustacean discoveries and new perspectives on deep-sea zoology and biogeography. In Ahyong, S. T., Chan, T.-Y., Corbaril, L.; Ng, P.K.L. (eds), Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 27. Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris : 13-66 (Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle ; 204). (Ref. 97366)
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
					
						IUCN Red List Status    
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				CITES status   (Ref. 108899)
			
			
				
					Not Evaluated				
			
			
			
			
			
			
				
					Not Evaluated				
			
			
			
			
			
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						Fishing Vulnerability  					
					
					
						Low vulnerability (10 of 100).					
				
						
						
			
									
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					Unknown.