Ashtoret lunaris, Yellow moon crab : fisheries
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Ashtoret lunaris   (Forsskål, 1775)

Yellow moon crab

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Classification / Names Populärnamn | synonymer | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Malacostraca | Decapoda | Matutidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / djupintervall / distribution range Ekologi

; djupintervall 0 - 50 m (Ref. 343).  Tropical; 30°N - 38°S, 32°E - 177°W

Distribution Länder | FAO områden | Ekosystem | Förekomster | Utplanteringar

Indo-West Pacific: From East Africa to Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Australia. Tropical to subtropical.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Könsmognad: Lm 3.3  range ? - ? cm Max length : 6.9 cm CW hane/ej könsbestämd; (Ref. 119018); 5.9 cm CW (female); publicerad maxvikt: 39.90 g (Ref. 119018); publicerad maxvikt: 39.90 g

Biologi     Ordlista (t.ex. epibenthic)

Caught in nets for food. Occurs from intertidal zone to a depth of 50 m. Found on muddy sand or broken shells bottoms (Ref. 106341), and sandy silty shores near seagrass (Ref. 106287).

Life cycle and mating behavior Könsmognad | Reproduktion | Lek | 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 referenser | Koordinator | Medarbetare

Hosie, A.M., A. Sampey, P.J. Davie and D.S. Jones 2015 Kimberley marine biota. Historical data: crustaceans. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 84:247-285. (Ref. 106854)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)


CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless

Human uses

Fiskeri: husbehovsfiske
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Internet-källor

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, sök) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 24.7 - 29.1, mean 28 (based on 1156 cells).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.