Chaceon macphersoni   (Manning & Holthuis, 1988)

Pink geryon

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Malacostraca | Decapoda | Geryonidae

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

Benthic; depth range 102 - 1025 m (Ref. 101895).  Deep-water; 1°S - 40°S, 16°E - 51°E

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Western Indian Ocean and Southeast Atlantic: off Mozambique, southern Madagascar and eastern South Africa, extending up to Cape Columbine in the Atlantic.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?, range 8 - 8.8 cm

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Minimum depth from Ref. 104443. Deep-water crab occurring at depths of 200 to 1025 m (Ref. 101895).

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.

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Groeneveld, J.C., B.I. Everett, S.T. Fennessy, S.P. Kirkman, J. Santos and W.D. Robertson. 2013. (Ref. 101895)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses

Fisheries: commercial
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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

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 8.7 - 15.9, mean 12.3 (based on 57 cells).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.