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Homarus americanus   Milne-Edwards, 1837

American lobster

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Classification / Names / Names Κοινά ονόματα | Συνώνυμα | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS

> Decapoda (Lobster, shrimp and crabs) > Nephropidae (clawed crabs)

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

; εύρος βάθους 0 - 480 m (Ref. 4), usually 4 - 50 m (Ref. 4).   Temperate, preferred 6°C (Ref. 107945); 54°N - 35°N, 78°W - 52°W (Ref. 4)

Κατανομή Χώρες | Περιοχές FAO | Οικοσυστήματα | Παρουσίες | Εισαγωγές

Northwest Atlantic and Western Atlantic.

Length at first maturity / Μέγεθος / Βάρος / Age

Maturity: Lm 8.8, range 7 - 9 cm Max length : 114 cm TL αρσενικό/απροσδιόριστο; (Ref. 81053); common length : 25.0 cm TL αρσενικό/απροσδιόριστο; (Ref. 4); μεγ. δημοσιευμένο βάρος: 1.7 kg (Ref. 81053)

Βιολογία     Γλωσσάρι (π.χ. epibenthic)

Benthic in coastal and shelf waters (Ref. 106894). Possibly a selective feeder, preying mainly on crabs, echinoderms, mussels and polychaetes but also ingesting algae and seaweeds, with a complex foraging behavior and thus capable of maintaining gross diet composition despite of sharp variations in prey availability, seasonality and ontogenetic changes, e.g., molt- and size-related diet shifts (Ref. 33024). Migration does not occur, or only to a limited scale (Ref. 4).

Life cycle and mating behavior Γεννητική Ωρίμανση | Αναπαραγωγή | Γεννοβολία | Αβγά | Γονιμότητα | Προνύμφες

The females carry their eggs for 10 to 11 months, ovigerous females are found throughout the year (Ref. 4). 0.5 broods per year (Ref. 81148); 0.15 cm postlarval size (Ref. 81158); 1 month pelagic period (Ref. 81159).

Main reference Αναφορές | Συντονιστής | Συνεργάτες

Holthuis, L.B. 1991. (Ref. 4)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 03 December 2009

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Human uses

αλιεία: πολύ εμπορικό
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Εργαλεία

Διαδικτυακές πηγές

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(αλιεία: species profile; publication : search) | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Δέντρο Ζωής | Wikipedia (Go, αναζήτηση) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 2.7 - 15.4, mean 10.2 (based on 112 cells).
Ελαστικότητα (Ref. 69278) Χαμηλό, ελάχιστος χρόνος για διπλασιασμό πληθυσμού 4,5 - 14 έτη (K=0.07-0.09; tm=5).
Prior r = 0.47, 95% CL = 0.31 - 0.71, Based on 2 full stock assessments.
Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Moderate to high vulnerability (46 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Very high.