Malacostraca | 
Decapoda | 
Polychelidae
			
			
			
				Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range				
				
					Ecology				
				
			
			
				Benthic; depth range 70 - 2195 m (Ref. 79664).  Subtropical			
			
			
				
			
			
			
				Circumglobal from tropical to polar regions.
			
			
			
			
			
				Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
			
			
				Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 10.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 122087)			
			
			
						
			
			
			
			
				
					Maximum depth from Ref. 97531.  Maximum lengths of male (Ref. 114244) and female (Ref. 95618) are based on occurrences; to be replaced with a better reference. Deep sea (Ref. 97531).  Middle subzone species from the upper slope to a depth of 2000 m (Ref. 106841).  Found on bathyal mud (Refs. 85762, 106841).				
			
			
			
			
			
				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.				
			
			
			
			
			
				Ahyong, S.T. and T.-Y. Chan 2008 Polychelidae from the Bohol and Sulu seas collected by Panglao 2005 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Polychelidae). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Suppl. No. 19:63-70. (Ref. 81885)
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
					
						IUCN Red List Status    
						 (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)
					
					
					
				
			
			
			
			
				CITES status   (Ref. 108899)
			
			
				
					Not Evaluated				
			
			
			
			
			
			
				
					Not Evaluated				
			
			
			
			
			
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						Preferred temperature  					
				 (Ref. 
115969): 4.7 - 13.2, mean 7.6 (based on 1075 cells).			
 
			
			
			
							
					Resilience  				
				
				
					High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (K=0.35-0.5).				
			
			
						
							
				
					
						Fishing Vulnerability  					
					
					
						Low to moderate vulnerability (28 of 100).					
				
						
						
			
									
						Price category  					
					
					Unknown.