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Pandalus montagui   Leach, 1814

Aesop shrimp

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Pandalus montagui

Greenland country information

Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
Abundance: | Ref:
Importance: | Ref:
Aquaculture: | Ref:
Regulations: | Ref:
Uses: no uses
Comments: C: Ref. 124765; M: Ref. 124765.
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/gl.html
National Fisheries Authority:
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: FAO, 2021
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Aesop shrimp, ... more

Classification / Names / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS

Malacostraca > Decapoda (Lobster, shrimp and crabs) > Pandalidae (pandalid shrimps)

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

Benthic; depth range 0 - 968 m (Ref. 101286).   Temperate, preferred 5°C (Ref. 107945); 82°N - 43°N, 71°W - 68°E

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Northern Atlantic and the Arctic: From Canada and USA to UK, Germany and Russia.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm 0.9, range 1 - ? cm Max length : 16.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 8); max. reported age: 4 years (Ref. 106917)

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Common in offshore waters (Ref. 106917). Epifaunal in areas with sludge (Ref. 96352). Free-living (Ref. 3123).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Mating behavior: Precopulatory courtship ritual is common (through olfactory and tactile cues); usually indirect sperm transfer (Ref. 833).

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Harms, J. 1993. (Ref. 2711)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Human uses

Fisheries: commercial
FAO - Fisheries: landings, species profile | FishSource | Sea Around Us

Tools

E-book | Field guide

Internet sources

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Fisheries: species profile; publication : search) | 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 - 9.7, mean 7.4 (based on 222 cells).
Resilience (Ref. 69278) High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (K=0.96-1.2; tm=1).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Very high.