Euphausia crystallorophias, Ice krill : fisheries

Euphausia crystallorophias   Holt & Tattersall, 1906

Ice krill

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Euphausia crystallorophias

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

Malacostraca | Euphausiacea | Euphausiidae

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

Pelagic; depth range 0 - 4000 m (Ref. 26875), usually 0 - 650 m (Ref. 26875).  Polar

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Circum-Antarctic.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 4.2 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 75771); 3.4 cm TL (female)

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Female maximum length from Ref. 26875. Found from surface to 300 to 4000 m. Undertakes vertical migration (Ref. 26875).

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

Breeds from end of December to February under the ice (Ref. 26875).

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Sala, A., M. Azzali and A. Russo. 2002. (Ref. 75771)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses

Fisheries: commercial
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BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(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): -1.8 - 1.1, mean -1.6 (based on 3588 cells).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.

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