Malacostraca |
Decapoda |
Callianassidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Benthic; depth range 0 - 4 m (Ref. 97531). Tropical
Western Central Atlantic: USA, Martinique, Virgin Islands, Belize and Jamaica.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 13.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 87256)
Often buries down to a meter among coarse sand and coral rubble at edges of lower intertidal and subtidal seagrass beds (Ref. 87256). Draws glass blades into their burrows (Ref. 86837). Deposit feeder (Ref. 86848), i.e., feeds on seagrass debris accumulated in their burrow chambers (Ref. 86850).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Members of the order Decapoda are mostly gonochoric. Mating behavior: Precopulatory courtship ritual is common (through olfactory and tactile cues); usually indirect sperm transfer.
Felder, D.L., P.C. Dworschak, R. Robles, H.D. Bracken, A.M. Windsor, J.M. Felder and R. Lemaitre 2009 Obvious invaders and overlooked infauna: Unexpected contituents of the decapod crustacean assemblage at Twin Cays, Belize. p. 181-188. In M.A. Lang, I.G. Macintyre, and K. Ruetzler (eds.) Proceedings of the Smithsonian Marine Science Symposium. Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences. Vol. 38. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. (Ref. 86837)
IUCN Red List Status
(Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Human uses
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Population dynamicsGrowth
Max. ages / sizes
Length-weight rel.
Length-length rel.
Length-frequencies
Mass conversion
Abundance
Life cycleReproductionMaturityFecunditySpawningEggsEgg developmentLarvae PhysiologyOxygen consumption
Human RelatedStamps, coins, misc.
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Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature
(Ref.
115969): 26.4 - 28.5, mean 27.6 (based on 330 cells).
Fishing Vulnerability
Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category
Unknown.