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Euphausia americana Hansen, 1911
| Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050 |
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| Euphausia americana AquaMaps Data sources: GBIF OBIS |
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS
Malacostraca | Euphausiacea | Euphausiidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology
Pelagic; depth range 0 - 2500 m (Ref. 83921). Tropical
Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions
Cosmopolitan.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Main reference
References | Coordinator | Collaborators
Brinton, E. 1962 The distribution of Pacific euphausiids. 8(2), 51-270. In Fox, D.L., Arrhenius, G.O.S., Phleger, F.B. (eds.), Contribution from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the Univeristy of California. University of California Press. California. (Ref. 2864)
IUCN Red List Status
(Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
CMS (Ref. 116361)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
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Oxygen consumption
Human Related
Stamps, coins, misc.
Outreach
References
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): 4.9 - 14.3, mean 8.2 (based on 306 cells).
Price category
(Ref. 80766):
Unknown.