Aristeus antennatus   (Risso, 1816)

Blue and red shrimp

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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Malacostraca | Decapoda | Aristeidae

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

Benthic; depth range 80 - 3300 m (Ref. 127635), usually 350 - 800 m (Ref. 80214).  Tropical, preferred 19°C (Ref. 107945); 49°N - 30°S, 41°W - 75°E

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Eastern Atlantic, Mediterranean and Western Indian Ocean: from Brazil to France, south to Natal, South Africa and east to Maldives.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm 3.2  range ? - ? cm Max length : 22.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 8); 7.1 cm CL (female); max. reported age: 6 years (Ref. 80242)

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Demersal (Ref. 80214). Maximum length for females from Ref. 80234. Demersal on muddy bottoms of slopes of continental shelf, in zones close to submarine canyons. Moves from depths of 200 m during the night to 800 m during the day, and changes location within the year (Ref. 80214). Feeds on small benthic invertebrates mainly crustaceans and polychaetes and also carrion (Ref. 434).

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.

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Holthuis, L.B. 1980. (Ref. 8)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses

Fisheries: highly commercial
FAO - Fisheries: landings, species profile | FIRMS (Stock assessments) | FishSource | Sea Around Us

Tools

E-book | Field guide

Internet sources

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Fisheries: species profile; publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, Search) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 6.6 - 18.3, mean 13.3 (based on 351 cells).
Resilience (Ref. 69278): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (K=0.14-0.99; tmax=6).
Prior r = 0.66, 95% CL = 0.44 - 0.99, Based on 7 full stock assessments.
Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Low vulnerability (12 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Very high.
Nutrients: Calcium = 109 [35, 184] mg/100g; Iron = 1.59 [1.21, 1.97] mg/100g; Protein = 20.2 [19.2, 21.3] %; Omega3 = 0.285 [0.185, 0.386] g/100g; Selenium = 48.3 [-31.7, 128.3] μg/100g; VitaminA = 0 μg/100g; Zinc = 1.79 [1.17, 2.40] mg/100g (wet weight).