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Carcinus maenas   (Linnaeus, 1758)

Green crab

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

Brazil country information

Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: introduced
Salinity: marine
Abundance: | Ref:
Importance: | Ref:
Aquaculture: | Ref:
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Reported from Brazil but it is not clear if it has already established (Ref. 114113). Reported from Rio de Janeiro and Pernambuco but apparently did not successfully establish (Ref. 125868).
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/br.html
National Fisheries Authority:
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Thresher, R., C. Proctor, G. Ruiz, R. Gurney, C. MacKinnon, W. Walton, L. Rodriguez and N. Bax, 2003
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Cangrejo verde, ... more

Classification / Names / Names Nomes comuns | Sinônimos | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS

> Decapoda (Lobster, shrimp and crabs) > Carcinidae ()

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecologia

; estuarina; intervalo de profundidade 0 - 200 m (Ref. 2779), usually 0 - 6 m (Ref. 114208).   Subtropical; -1°C - 22°C (Ref. 114208), preferred 12°C (Ref. 107945); 70°N - 22°N, 20°W - 19°E (Ref. 114232)

Distribuição Países | Áreas FAO | Ecossistemas | Ocorrências | Introduções

Eastern Atlantic: From Great Britain north to Iceland, the North Sea and Norway, south to Portugal and Spain to Mauritania. Introduced and established in North America, South Africa (Cape Town), and Australia. Introduced but not established in Panama, Brazil, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Myanmar, Japan and Hawaii. Subtropical to polar.

Length at first maturity / Tamanho / Peso / Idade

Maturity: Lm ?, range 1 - 4.5 cm Max length : 6.0 cm CL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 435); common length : 4.0 cm CL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 435); Idade máx. registada: 7 anos (Ref. 128193)

Biologia     Glossário (p.ex. epibenthic)

Usually found in eelgrass beds (Ref. 128717). Maximum carapace width: 7.7 cm; commonly 5 cm wide. Inhabits shallow water from the intertidal area down to 200 m. Lives under stones, on muddy or muddy sand bottoms, or hard bottom, etc. Also inhabits brackish lagoons (Ref. 2779), and eelgrass beds (Ref. 128717).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturidade | Reprodução | Desova | Ovos | Fecundidade | Larvas

Members of the order Decapoda are mostly gonochoric. Mating behavior: Precopulatory courtship ritual is common (through olfactory and tactile cues); usually indirect sperm transfer (Ref. 833). Berried females migrate from littoral areas to more saline and deeper water (8-10 m) until hatching of eggs; afterwhich, they go back to moult and copulate (Ref. 128197). Larger females can breed twice or thrice annually (Ref. 128203).

Referência principal Referências | Coordenador | Colaboradores

Fischer, W., G. Bianchi and W.B. Scott (eds.). 1981. (Ref. 435)

Status na Lista Vermelha da IUCN (Ref. 130435)

  Não avaliada 

Status no CITES (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Uso pelos humanos

Pescarias: espécies comerciais
FAO - pescarias: landings | FishSource | Sea Around Us

Ferramentas

E-book | Guia de campo

Fontes da internet

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(pescarias: ; publication : search) | GenBank (genoma, nucleotídeo) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Árvore da vida | Wikipedia (Ir para, procura) | Registro zoológico

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 7 - 12.7, mean 9.6 (based on 453 cells).
Vulnerabilidade (Ref. 71543): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Categoria de preço (Ref. 80766): Very high.