Cronius ruber Red Swim Crab, Blackpoint Sculling Crab

Cronius ruber is commonly referred to as Red Swim Crab, Blackpoint Sculling Crab. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

13331 

AphiaID:

241109 

Scientific:

Cronius ruber 

German:

Rote Schwimmkrabbe 

English:

Red Swim Crab, Blackpoint Sculling Crab 

Category:

Krabben 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Decapoda (Order) > Portunidae (Family) > Cronius (Genus) > ruber (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Lamarck, ), 1818 

Occurrence:

Barbados, Guadeloupe, El Salvador, Ghana, Benin, Suriname, Gambia, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Cameroon, Central America (Eastern Pacific), Central America (Western Atlantic), Clipperton Island, Columbia, Congo, Costa Rica, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, East-Atlantic Ocean, Eastern Pacific Ocean, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Galapagos Islands, Grenada, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of California, Gulf of Mexico, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Invasive Species, Jamaica, Liberia, Madeira, Martinique, Mauritania, Mexico (East Pacific), Montserrat, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, São Tomé e Principé, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South America (Western Atlantic Ocean), South Atlantic, The Bahamas, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Cayman Islands, The Gulf of Guinea, the Ivory Coast, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, U.S., West Africa, West Coast USA, West Indies, West-Atlantic Ocean 

Marine Zone:

Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 

Sea depth:

0 - 110 Meter 

Habitats:

Coral reefs, Muddy grounds, Rocky, hard seabeds, Seawater, Sea water 

Size:

1.97" - 3.15" (5,2cm - 8,2cm) 

Temperature:

22,3 °F - 82.4 °F (22,3°C - 28°C) 

Food:

Carnivore, Carrion, Clams, Crustaceans, Detritus, Fish (little fishes), Predatory, Snails, Worms, Zoobenthos 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for aquarium keeping 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Cronius ruber
  Rote Schwimmkrabbe
• Cronius tumidulus

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2020-10-29 15:53:41 

Last edit:

2024-11-28 20:51:35 

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