Paralithodes camtschaticus, Red king crab : fisheries
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Paralithodes camtschaticus   (Tilesius, 1815)

Red king crab

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Classification / Names Tên thường gặp | Các synonym ( Các tên trùng) | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Malacostraca | Decapoda | Lithodidae | Lithodinae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / Mức độ sâu / distribution range Sinh thái học

; Mức độ sâu 0 - 461 m (Tài liệu tham khảo 865).  Temperate; -1°C - 18°C (Tài liệu tham khảo 121574), preferred 5°C (Tài liệu tham khảo 107945); 65°N - 36°N, 127°E - 126°W (Tài liệu tham khảo 78813)

Distribution Các nước | Các khu vực của FAO | Các hệ sinh thái | Những lần xuất hiện | Những chỉ dẫn

Northern Pacific and the Arctic: from South Korea to Kamchatka Krai, Russia, and Norton Sound, Alaska to Great Bay, Vancouver Island. Introduced in Arctic Russia and Norway in the Barents Sea between water temperatures between 1.0 °C and 13.5 °C (Ref. 121575). Temperate to polar.

Length at first maturity / Bộ gần gũi / Weight / Age

Chín muồi sinh dục: Lm 10.7, range 7 - 11.28 cm Max length : 22.0 cm CL con đực/không giới tính; (Tài liệu tham khảo 78813)

Sinh học     Tự điển (thí dụ epibenthic)

Has two migrations, mating-molting and feeding migration (Ref. 78813). This is the most valuable commercial crab on the Pacific coast of North America (Ref. 865). Maximum depth from Ref. 121573. This is a benthic species. The crab is confined mainly to sand-and-pebble bottom. It prefers areas of hard bottom and thickets of macrophytes (Ref. 121573). At summer time, adult and juvenile distribute in mostly shallow shelf less 100 m. Non-migratory juveniles stay in one area throughout the year. Adults overwinter at depths of 150-300 m. Their cyclic migrations are from shallow waters to deep waters and vice versa. At each season they choose the most favorable feeding conditions, shelters for molting and suitable hydrological conditions for life. At spring, adults migrate from depths to shallow waters of 2 to 9 m for spawning: larvae hatching from mature external eggs, females molting in the presence of males and then mating (Ref. 121574). The molting process lasts 4-10 minutes. Curing of the shell lasts about 2-3 days, during which two missing layers of the shell are formed. Contamination degree of the shell allows to determine whether the crab has molted in the present or last year. Particularly, the ventral view of the shell is contaminated and erased intensely (Refs. 121580, 121581). After spawning or molting, the crabs spend the remainder of summer and whole autumn to feed. Usually the crabs move zigzag between forage places at an average speed of 1.4-2.3 km per day (Refs. 121582, 121583). Feeding migrations are dependent on two factors: distribution of forage places and the water temperature (Ref. 121584). Both an opportunistic and a generalist predator. A number of studies revealed that,, when introduced to new virgin areas, the species prefers preying on large specimens of benthic animal groups such as bivalves, echinoderms, and sipunculids (Ref. 113901). Adults mainly feed on mollusks, crustaceans and polychaetes. In addition, its regular prey are echinoderms, sponges, rhizopods, bryozoans and algae. The average daily diet of adult over 150 mm in size is 0.8% of its body weight. No differences in food preference were found between male and female crabs. Juveniles feed on ophiuroids, sponges, bivalves, as well as polychaetes and barnacles. The diet of juveniles with a carapace width of 2-20 mm is poorer than that of an adult's, and it is characterized by a large abundance of sponges and hydroids (Ref. 121579). These crabs exhibit cannibalism (Ref. 101157).

Life cycle and mating behavior Chín muồi sinh dục | Sự tái sinh sản | Đẻ trứng | Eggs | Sự sinh sản | Larvae

At spring adult crabs concentrate in shallow water for larvae hatching, molting, and then pairing and laying new eggs on pleopods. Larvae hatching from eggs (protozoa and zoea) live in the pelagic zone, as a rule, for more than two months. During this time the larvae manage to molt four times and turn into a glaucothoe, which develops all legs already, claws, shell of cephalothorax is covered with thorns. Glaucothoe passes to bottom existence. After a month glaucothoe molts and turns into juvenile of red king crab. Three years later juvenile leave the thicket of algae and move to sandy seabed. Crabs found in any pod are 24 and 69 mm in CL. Crabs begin to gather in pods and make extended migrations (Ref. 121585). Complete larval development requires an average of 460 degree days (Ref. 121587). The optimum temperature for the development of zoea is about 3 °C, the development of the late stages occurs at about 8 °C (Ref. 121588).

Main reference Các tài liệu tham khảo | Người điều phối | Người cộng tác

Jørgensen, L.L. 2006 NOBANIS-Invasive Alien Species Fact Sheet- Paralithodes camtschaticus. Online Database of the North European and Baltic Network on Invasive Alien Species-NOBANIS www.nobanis.org[Date assessed 09/26/08]. (Tài liệu tham khảo 78813)

IUCN Red List Status (Tài liệu tham khảo 130435: Version 2025-1)


CITES status (Tài liệu tham khảo 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Tài liệu tham khảo 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses

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Các nguồn internet

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Các nghề cá: ; publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Cây Đời sống | Wikipedia (Go, tìm) | Tạp chí Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 0.5 - 6.8, mean 3 (based on 387 cells).
Thích nghi nhanh (Ref. 69278): Trung bình, thời gian nhân đôi của chủng quần tối thiểu là 1.4 - 4.4 năm (K=0.25; tm=7; Fec=200,000).
Fishing Vulnerability (Tài liệu tham khảo 71543): Moderate to high vulnerability (51 of 100).
Climate Vulnerability (Tài liệu tham khảo 125649): Moderate vulnerability (39 of 100).
Price category (Tài liệu tham khảo 80766): High.
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.