Malacostraca |
Decapoda |
Callianassidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Benthic; depth range 0 - 4 m (Ref. 97531). Tropical
Western Central Atlantic: USA, Martinique, Virgin Islands, Belize and Jamaica.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 13.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 87256)
Often buries down to a meter among coarse sand and coral rubble at edges of lower intertidal and subtidal seagrass beds (Ref. 87256). Draws glass blades into their burrows (Ref. 86837). Deposit feeder (Ref. 86848), i.e., feeds on seagrass debris accumulated in their burrow chambers (Ref. 86850).
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.
Felder, D.L., P.C. Dworschak, R. Robles, H.D. Bracken, A.M. Windsor, J.M. Felder and R. Lemaitre. 2009. (Ref. 86837)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
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Age/Size
Growth
Length-weight
Length-length
Morphology
Larvae
Abundance
Internet sources
Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature
(Ref.
115969): 26.4 - 28.5, mean 27.6 (based on 330 cells).
Price category
Unknown.