Common name (e.g. turtle)

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Genus + Species (e.g. Caretta caretta)

Meganyctiphanes norvegica   (Sars, 1857)

Norwegian krill

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

Malacostraca | Euphausiacea | Euphausiidae

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

Pelagic; depth range 100 - 600 m (Ref. 96715), usually ? - 500 m (Ref. 118505).  Boreal; 2°C - 15°C (Ref. 118496), preferred 4°C (Ref. 107945); 80°N - 27°N, 78°W - 52°E (Ref. 118505)

Distribution Territories | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Arctic, Atlantic and the Mediterranean: from North Carolina, USA and Canada (Hudson Strait) to 52°E in Novaya Zemlya, Russia, north to Fram Strait and south to Cape Juby, Morocco.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ?, range 3 - 3.5 cm Max length : 4.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 2864); max. reported age: 2.00 years (Ref. 130001)

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 - Fisheries: landings search; Publication: search | FishSource | Sea Around Us

Tools

Internet sources

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO - Fisheries: landings search; 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 (tm=1; tmax=2)
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 71543)	Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649)	Low to moderate vulnerability (28 of 100)
Price category (Ref. 80766):	Unknown.
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); based on nutrient studies.

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