Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Velvet Lobster, Velvet Scampi
Description
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Habitat
Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -1,189 meters (0 to -3,901 feet).[1]
Biome: Marine .
Ecology:
This species occurs at depths of 240-700 m
, and is most common at
350-450 m (Holthuis 1991). It makes deep burrows in soft sediment
(Wallner and Phillips 1995). Furthermore, this species recruits to
the fishery
at + 4 years and can live up to 12 years (Wallner and
Phillips 1995).[2].
List of Habitats
:
- 11 Marine Deep Benthic
- 11.1 Marine Deep Benthic - Continental Slope/Bathyl Zone (200-4,000m)
- 11.1.2 Soft Substrate [more info]
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Protostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
()
- A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
()
- Cuvier
- Phylum:
Arthropoda
()
- Latreille, 1829
- Arthropods
- Subphylum:
Mandibulata
()
- Snodgrass, 1938
- Infraphylum:
Crustaceomorpha
()
- (Chernyshev, 1960)
- Superclass:
Crustacea
()
- Pennant, 1777
- Crustaceans
- Epiclass:
Eucrustacea
()
- Subclass:
Eumalacostraca
()
- Grobben, 1892
- Superorder:
Eucarida
()
- Calman, 1904
- Order:
Decapoda
()
- Latreille, 1802
- Decapods
- Suborder:
Pleocyemata
()
- Burkenroad, 1963
- Infraorder:
Astacidea
()
- Latreille, 1802
- Superfamily:
Nephropoidea
()
- Dana, 1852
- Family:
Nephropidae
()
- Dana, 1852
- Genus:
Metanephrops
()
- Specific name:
velutinus
- Chan & Yu, 1991
- Scientific name: - Metanephrops velutinus Chan & Yu, 1991
- Specific name:
velutinus
- Chan & Yu, 1991
- Genus:
Metanephrops
(
- Family:
Nephropidae
(
- Superfamily:
Nephropoidea
(
- Infraorder:
Astacidea
(
- Suborder:
Pleocyemata
(
- Order:
Decapoda
(
- Superorder:
Eucarida
(
- Subclass:
Eumalacostraca
(
- Epiclass:
Eucrustacea
(
- Superclass:
Crustacea
(
- Infraphylum:
Crustaceomorpha
(
- Subphylum:
Mandibulata
(
- Phylum:
Arthropoda
(
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
(
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Metanephrops andamanicus
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 18-Feb-1998
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Metanephrops
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 18 species and subspecies in this genus:
M. andamanicus (Andaman Lobster) · M. arafurensis (Arafura Lobster) · M. armatus (Armoured Lobster) · M. australiensis (Northwest Lobster) · M. binghami (Caribbean Lobster) · M. boschmai (Bight Lobster) · M. challengeri (New Zealand Lobster) · M. formosanus (Formosa Lobster) · M. japonicus (Japanese Lobster) · M. mozambicus (African Lobster) · M. neptunus (Neptune Lobster) · M. rubellus (Urugavian Lobster) · M. sagamiensis (Sculpted Lobster) · M. sibogae (Siboga Lobster) · M. sinensis (China Lobster) · M. taiwanicus (Red-Banded Lobster) · M. thomsoni (Red-Banded Lobster) · M. velutinus (Velvet Lobster)
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Further Reading
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- AFMA. 2004. Draft Environmental Assessment Report: Western Trawl Fisheries. Australian Fisheries Management Authority.
- Chan, T-Y. 1997. Crustacea Decapoda: Palinuridae, Scyllaridae and Nephropidae collected in Indonesia by the KARUBAR Cruise, with an identification key for the species of Metanephrops. Memoires du Museum National d'histoire Naturelle 172: 409-431.
- Chan, T-Y. and Yu, H-P. 1991. Studies on the Metanephrops japonicus Group (Decapoda, Nephropidae), with Descriptions of Two New Species. Crustaceana 60(1): 18-51.
- Chan, T.Y. 1998. Lobsters. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Vol. 2. Cephalopods, crustaceans, holothurians and sharks: 973-1044.
- Holthuis, L.B. 1991. Marine lobsters of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries known to date. FAO species catalogue 13(125). FAO, Rome.
- IUCN. 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2011.1). Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 16 June 2011).
- Lynch, A.W. and Garvey, J.R. 2005. North West Slope Trawl Fishery - Scampi Stock Assessment 2004. Data Group, Australian Fisheries Management Authority, Canberra.
- Poore, G.C.B. 2004. Marine Decapod Crustacea of Southern Australia: A Guide to Identification. CSIRO.
- Sampaklis, A., Rodgers, M., Wood, R. and Ansell, E. 2009. North West Slope Trawl Fishery. In: Wilson. D., Curtotti. R., Begg, G. and Phillips, K. (eds), Fishery status reports 2008: status of fish stocks and fisheries managed by the Australian Government. Bureau of Rural Sciences & Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Canberra.
- Wallner, B.G. and Phillips, B.F. 1995. Development of a trawl fishery for deepwater metanephropid lobsters of the northwest continental slope of Australia: designing a management strategy compatible with species life history. ICES Marine Science Symposia 199: 379-390.
Notes
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Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/Taxonomicon/]. Access date: Nov 23, 2005
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 14, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 5 providers.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
- Wahle, R., Butler, M., Cockcroft, A., MacDiarmid, A. & Chan, T.Y. 2011. Metanephrops velutinus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 02February2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 14, 2008:
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Bureau of Rural Sciences National commercial fisheries half-degree data set 2000-2002 (OBIS Australia)
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: CSIRO Marine Data Warehouse (OBIS Australia)
- National Museum of Natural History: NMNH Invertebrate Zoology Collections
- OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2714990
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-552945
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13813134
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 552945
- IUCN ID: 223069
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 459830
Footnotes
- Mean = -477.870 meters (-1,567.815 feet), Standard Deviation = 269.840 based on 181 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
- Wahle, R., Butler, M., Cockcroft, A., MacDiarmid, A. & Chan, T.Y. 2011. Metanephrops velutinus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 02 February 2012. [back]
