Callinectes similis, Lesser blue crab : fisheries
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Callinectes similis   Williams, 1966

Lesser blue crab

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Classification / Names Tên thường gặp | Các synonym ( Các tên trùng) | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Malacostraca | Decapoda | Portunidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / Mức độ sâu / distribution range Sinh thái học

Sống nổi và đáy; Mức độ sâu 0 - 379 m (Tài liệu tham khảo 367), usually 0 - 92 m.  Tropical

Distribution Các nước | Các khu vực của FAO | Các hệ sinh thái | Những lần xuất hiện | Những chỉ dẫn

Western Atlantic: from USA to Colombia. Tropical to temperate.

Length at first maturity / Bộ gần gũi / Weight / Age

Chín muồi sinh dục: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 12.2 cm WD con đực/không giới tính; (Tài liệu tham khảo 367); 9.5 cm WD (female)

Short description Hình thái học

Carapace more than twice as broad as long; 9 blunt teeth (outer orbital tooth and strong lateral spine included) on arched anterolateral margin; front bearing 4 teeth (excluding inner orbital angles), inner pair small but definitely formed. Much of convex dorsal surface lightly and uniformly granulate in addition to transverse lines of fine granulations; central trapezoidal (metagastric) area short and wide (anterior width about 2.75 times, posterior width about 1.7 times length). Pincers dissimilar, with very fine granules on longitudinal ridges; fifth legs flattened in form of paddles. Male with sixth (penultimate) segment of T-shaped abdomen broader than telson, flush with sternum in retracted position; first pleopods well separated and reaching anteriorly 2/3 length of thoracic sternite 7 or beyond, distal part slender, extending straight to tips curved slightly inward, armed with minute retrogressive spinules. Color: carapace green dorsally, irregular areas of iridescence at bases of and between anterolateral teeth, and on posterior and posterolateral border. Chelipeds and portions of legs similar in color more tannish green dorsally, with iridescent areas on outer surface, with fuchsia on tips of fingers and teeth of opposed edges. Lateral spines and some anterolateral teeth as well as spines on chelipeds white-tipped. Walking legs grading from fuchsia distally through violet blue to light blue mottled with white proximally, pubescence on legs beige. Swimming legs variably mottled with white; all legs with stellate fuchsia markings at articulations. Underparts white blue.

Sinh học     Tự điển (thí dụ epibenthic)

Benthopelagic (Ref. 97531). Inhabits marine littoral water, seldom in estuaries. Found in salinities ranging from 24.9 to 37.4 ppm and temperatures between 13 and 29°C, at depths down to 92 m, recorded occasionally to 379 m. Usually associated with Callinectes sapidus. Feeds on plant fragment, fish remains, polychaetes, crustaceans (Farfantepenaeus aztecus and Portunus gibbesii), micromollusks (Mulinia lateralis) and detritus.

Life cycle and mating behavior Chín muồi sinh dục | Sự tái sinh sản | Đẻ trứng | Eggs | Sự sinh sản | 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.

Main reference Các tài liệu tham khảo | Người điều phối | Người cộng tác

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. (Tài liệu tham khảo 367)

IUCN Red List Status (Tài liệu tham khảo 130435: Version 2025-1)


CITES status (Tài liệu tham khảo 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Tài liệu tham khảo 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses

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Sinh thái học
Population dynamics
Sự sinh trưởng
Max. ages / sizes
Length-weight rel.
Length-length rel.
Length-frequencies
Mass conversion
Sự phong phú
Life cycle
Sự tái sinh sản
Chín muồi sinh dục
Sự sinh sản
Đẻ trứng
Eggs
Egg development
Larvae
Distribution
Các nước
Các khu vực của FAO
Các hệ sinh thái
Những lần xuất hiện
Những chỉ dẫn
Physiology
Thành phần ô-xy

Các nguồn internet

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Cây Đời sống | Wikipedia (Go, tìm) | Tạp chí Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 21.4 - 27.8, mean 25.6 (based on 1134 cells).
Fishing Vulnerability (Tài liệu tham khảo 71543): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category (Tài liệu tham khảo 80766): Very high.