Description: A deep-sea oplophorid shrimp. Generally transparent but covered with scattered red spots. Internal organs and eggs are also scarlet red, and the eyes are brown. Has deep purple photophores near the ventral margin which produce luminescence.
Global Distribution: Eastern Central Pacific, Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic.
BIOLOGICAL FEATURES
Size: Maximum carapace length 19 mm.
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von Bertallanfy growth parameters:
Reproduction: Few eggs (6 - 18) per ovigerous female.
Maturity: Smallest ovigerous female 12.6 mm.
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ECOLOGICAL FEATURES
Depth range: SeaLifeBase 1020 - 1020 m.
Chace (1986): 291 - 3292 m, commonly between 300 - 600 m.
Madeira (DSIDP): 250 m.
Habitat: Bathypelagic. Usually found on or near bottom.
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FISHERIES
Commercial interest: Not commercial.
Conservation status: Not evaluated.
Nutritional information & food safety: Direcção de Serviços de Investigação das Pescas, Direcção Regional das Pescas da Madeira, unpublished results.
Palomares, M.L.D. and D. Pauly, editors (2014). SeaLifeBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.sealifebase.org, version (04/2014).
www.sealifebase.org/summary/Systellaspis-pellucida.html
REFERENCES
Chace, F. A. (1986). The Caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907-1910, part 4: families Oplophoridae and Nematocarcinidae. Smithsonian Contribution to Zoology, 432. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, USA, 82 pp.
Chan T.-Y., Yu H.-P. (1986). The deep-sea shrimps of the family Oplophoridae (Crustacea: Decapoda) from Taiwan. Asian Marine Biology, 3: 89-99.
DSIDP (2004). Unpublished results. Direcção de Serviços de Investigação e Desenvolvimento da Pesca, Direcção Regional de Pescas, Madeira, Portugal.
IUCN (2014). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. www.iucnredlist.org
