Common name (e.g. turtle)

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Genus + Species (e.g. Caretta caretta)

Euphausia triacantha   Holt & Tattersall, 1906

Spiny krill

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

Malacostraca | Euphausiacea | Euphausiidae

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

Pelagic; depth range 50 - 600 m (Ref. 126819), usually 200 - 600 m (Ref. 126819).  Polar

Distribution Territories | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Antarctic Ocean.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 4.2 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 7679); max. reported age: 3.00 years (Ref. 7679)

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

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

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Brinton, E. 1962 The distribution of Pacific euphausiids. 8(2), 51-270. In Fox, D.L., Arrhenius, G.O.S., Phleger, F.B. (eds.), Contribution from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the Univeristy of California. University of California Press. California. (Ref. 2864)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Threat to humans

Human uses

Fisheries: commercial
FAO - Publication: search | FishSource | Sea Around Us

Tools

Internet sources

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

Resilience (Ref. 69278):	High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (K=0.6; tmax=3)
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 71543)	Low vulnerability (21 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766):	Unknown.

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