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Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
Abundance: | Ref:
Importance: of no interest | Ref: Yasumura, D., Y. Oshima, T. Yasumoto, A.C. Alcala and L. Alcala, 1986
Aquaculture: never/rarely | Ref:
Regulations: no regulations | Ref:
Uses: no uses
Comments: Considered to be the country's most poisonous crab with 50% of ingestion cases being fatal (Ref. 128965). Found in Negros Island (Ref. 107779), Zamboanga, Palawan, Panay Island, Marinduque, Mindoro, Sorsogon, Albay, Quezon, Batangas, La Union, and Ilocos (Ref. 128968).
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/rp.html
National Fisheries Authority:
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Ward, M., 1941
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Devil crab, ... more

Classification / Names / Names ماع يماسا | فدارتم | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS

> Decapoda (Lobster, shrimp and crabs) > Xanthidae (stone and mud crabs)

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range يسانش موب

گنس بآ هب هتسباو; قمع تارييغت 0 - 10 m (Ref. 96667). Tropical

شنكارپ اهروشك | )OAF( يناهج راب و راوخ نامزاس قطانم | Ecosystems | روهظ | يفرعم

Indo-Pacific: from East Africa to French Polynesia.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / نس

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm Max length : 10.0 cm CL يسنج صاوخ نودب / رن سنج; (Ref. 128968)

رصتخم فيصوت يسانش تخير

The carapace has protruding frontal borders which are divided into four lobes (first three are rounded and the fourth is tooth-like. The body is covered with eye-like chocolate brown spots and smooth, well-defined lobules. Both front pincers are of the same size, while the walking legs are fringed with long hairs (Ref. 128968).

Adults occur in coral reefs, hidden under rocks during the day. Nocturnal (Ref. 128968). The shell and flesh of this species contain neosaxitoxin, saxitoxin, and tetrodotoxin (Ref. 107779, 128965) which have been proven to be fatal when ingested (Ref. 128965). Intertidal to subtidal (Ref. 106854). Members of the family Xanthidae range from being algal scrapers to aggressive predators (Ref. 103027).

Life cycle and mating behavior غولب | لثم دیلوت | یزیر مخت | اه مخت | Fecundity | )ورال ( دازوت

Members of the order Decapoda are mostly gonochoric. Mating behavior: Precopulatory courtship ritual is common (through olfactory and tactile cues); usually indirect sperm transfer.

یلصا ذخآم عجارم | هدننك گنهامه | ناراكمه

MarineSpecies.org. 2050. (Ref. 3477)

NCUI زمرق تسرهف رد تيعضو (Ref. 130435)

یبايزرا لباقريغ

ستياس رظن زا تيعضو (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

اه ناسنا یارب رطخ

Poisonous to eat (Ref. 107779)

یناسنا هدافتسا

تاليش – يريگ يهام: يراجت
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رتشيب تاعالطا

اهروشك
)OAF( يناهج راب و راوخ نامزاس قطانم
Ecosystems
روهظ
يفرعم
Stocks
يسانش موب
يياذغ تداع
يياذغ مالقا

ماع يماسا
فدارتم
نایچراکش
لثم دیلوت
غولب
یزیر مخت
Fecundity
اه مخت
مخت ومن

Age/Size
دشر
نزو - لوط
لوط - لوط
يسانش تخير
)ورال ( دازوت
يناوارف

عجارم
Mass conversion

ناراكمه
اه سکع

يتنرتنيا عبانم

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 24.6 - 29.3, mean 28.3 (based on 3236 cells).

تميق هقبط (Ref. 80766): Unknown.

Zosimus aeneus (Linnaeus, 1758)