Matuta victor, Common moon crab : fisheries
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Matuta victor   (Fabricius, 1781)

Common moon crab

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Classification / Names Populärnamn | synonymer | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Malacostraca | Decapoda | Calappidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / djupintervall / distribution range Ekologi

; djupintervall 0 - 20 m (Ref. 343).  Tropical

Distribution Länder | FAO områden | Ekosystem | Förekomster | Utplanteringar

Indo-Pacific: Southeast Asia to Fiji and New Hebrides.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Könsmognad: Lm ?, range 3 - 4.46 cm Max length : 5.0 cm CW hane/ej könsbestämd; (Ref. 343)

Short description Morfologi

Carapace rounded, with 2 long, well-developed lateral spines; anterolateral margins gently serrated. Outer surface of palm with low but distinct oblique ridge. Color: yellowish ground color with numerous fine black spots and several larger ones on carapace; legs and chelae bright yellow.

Biologi     Ordlista (t.ex. epibenthic)

Caught by local communities in nets, by hand or beach seines. On sandy areas (Ref. 343), and intertidal mudflats (Refs. 128960, 9773). Carnivorous and facultative scavengers. Preys mainly on crustaceans and mollusks; smaller individuals on small, soft-shelled species while larger individuals eat slow-moving invertebrates like anomurans, bivalves and gastropods (Ref. 102715). Scavenger-predator (Ref. 128960). Usually seen swimming along the tidal current. Known to burrow in sand (Ref. 9773).

Life cycle and mating behavior Könsmognad | Reproduktion | Lek | 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.

Main reference referenser | Koordinator | Medarbetare

Ng, P.K.L. 1998 Crabs. p. 1045-1155. In K.E. Carpenter and V.H. Niem (eds) FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Volume 2. Cephalopods, crustaceans, holothurians and sharks. Rome, FAO. 1998. pp. 687-1396. (Ref. 343)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)


CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless

Human uses

Fiskeri: husbehovsfiske
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Trophic Ecology
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Ekologi
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Life cycle
Reproduktion
Könsmognad
Fecundity
Lek
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Larvae
Distribution
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Ekosystem
Förekomster
Utplanteringar
Physiology
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Internet-källor

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, sök) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 22.8 - 29.3, mean 28.6 (based on 2487 cells).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.