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Species of crab

Ovalipes catharus
Dorsal view of a preserved Ovalipes catharus specimen with the anterior facing the bottom of the frame. A note at the top reads "Norman Douglas collection. Beneath that, another reads: "Ovalipes bipustulatus. Swimming crab. Maketu, Bay of Plenty, 5 April, 1977. Ashore, dead, in a wash up of seaweed on the western shore of the peninsula. N. Douglas." A note to the right of these two, another reads: "AK 78855. Auckland Museum, N.Z. Porcellanidae. Ovalipes catharus. L3523: N.Z., Bay of Plenty, Maketu, on the western shore of the peninsula Washed up, dead in seaweed. c. 37 44.8 S, 176 27.8 E. Coll: Douglas, N., 05 APR 1977. CMROVA.CAT." To the crab's left is an OpCard 201 colour correction chart. A ruler in centimetres is at the bottom of the frame, revealing a carapace width of approximately 100 millimetres. The crab's carapace and chelipeds are a light-yellowish colour with maroon spots. The walking legs and paddles are a dark, sandy brown.
Ventral view of Ovalipes catharus in a shallow puddle on top of dark sand. The crab is ostensibly dead and covered in sand particles. The abdomen and all 10 legs are visible; the abdomen and underside of the chelipeds and walking legs are a bright white.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Ovalipidae
Genus: Ovalipes
Species: O. catharus
Binomial name
Ovalipes catharus
(White in White and Doubleday, 1843)
Map showing the distribution of Ovalipes catharus, with regions it resides in coloured in brown, regions it is not known to reside in coloured in light grey, and ocean transparent. In Australia, these include South Australia and Victoria. In New Zealand, these include North Island, South Island, Stewart Island, and the Chatham Islands; the Chatham Islands have been zoomed in on to show detail. Land masses besides Australia and New Zealand such as half the island of New Guinea are shown to the north, but none of them are brown.
Regions whose coasts house Ovalipes catharus.
Synonyms
  • Portunus catharus White in White and Doubleday, 1843

Ovalipes catharus, commonly known as the paddle crab, swimming crab, or Māori: pāpaka, is a species of crab in the family Ovalipidae. It is found in shallow, sandy-bottomed waters around the coasts of New Zealand, the Chatham Islands, and uncommonly in southern Australia. It is an opportunistic, aggressive, and versatile feeder active mostly at night, preying predominantly on molluscs and crustaceans. It is also highly prone to cannibalism, which accounts for over a quarter of its diet in some locations. The crab's paddle-shaped rear legs and streamlined carapace allow it to swim rapidly to capture prey and to burrow in the sand in order to escape predation. Its mating season is in winter and spring; the male carries the female until she moults, after which the two mate and the female likely moves into deeper waters to incubate and disperse her larvae.

Commercial fisheries have harvested paddle crabs since the 1970s, with catches declining considerably from a peak in the late 1990s. Its population is expected to be increasing, although ecologists have raised concerns that the paddle crab could become outcompeted by Charybdis japonica, an invasive species with a similar size, diet, and habitat. O. catharus is present in Māori culture, both as an artistic motif and as a traditional source of food.

Description

See also: Decapod anatomy
Frontal view of Ovalipes catharus walking on the seabed or potentially resting on a dark-coloured rock. The chelipeds, mouthparts, eyestalks, antennae, walking legs, and some of the dorsal carapace are visible. Fine, white hairs line the area directly underneath the lateral teeth. Fine hairs in the orbits and above the mouth are a sandy brown colour. The bottoms of the eyes are covered in sand.
The front of O. catharus directly under the carapace is lined with setae.

Ovalipes catharus has an oval-shaped, streamlined, and slightly grainy carapace with five large, sawtooth-like projections to either side of the eyes and four smaller ones at the front. The carapace has two large, maroon eyespots at the rear, two smaller eyespots near the front, and cervical grooves which form a butterfly-shaped mark near the centre. It is overall sandy grey with orange-red highlights and dotted with small, brown spots. The crab's underside is white, and its rear legs – which are flattened and function as swimming paddles – have a purplish tinge. The area above its mouth near the base of the antennae is somewhat hairy, and a line of setae runs from the base of its deep orbits out to the area underneath the carapace teeth. Like other Ovalipes, O. catharus has well-developed, relatively large eyes. Unlike about half of known Ovalipes species, however, it exhibits no iridescence as a form of signalling.

Ovalipes catharus' relatively short front legs – the chelipeds – feature spines and granules on the wrists and setae on the posterior border of the arms. The left pincer (minor chela) is smaller than its right (major chela), and both dactyli – the movable tip of its claws – are slender and tapered. The minor chela grows in direct proportion to the carapace width in females, but it may exhibit negative allometry (proportionally smaller growth) in males. The minor chela, used for cutting, is lined with small, conical teeth on both fingers, while the major chela also features a large proximal tooth used for crushing. It has three pairs of walking legs, which are somewhat granular and relatively flat. The flattened rear paddles are fringed with setae.

Mature male paddle crabs can reach carapace widths up to a reported 150 mm (5.9 in), and the largest males weigh around 600–700 g (21–25 oz). Sexually mature females typically have a carapace width of >70 mm (2.8 in) and are known to be as wide as about 115 mm (4.5 in). The youngest juveniles tend to reside in shallow waters of about 0.1–0.5 m (0.33–1.6 ft), while deeper waters of 5–15 m (16–49 ft) often house the largest, most mature individuals. Abdomen size in males and juvenile females grows in direct proportion to carapace width, but after a carapace width of 30–40 mm (1.2–1.6 in), the female's abdomen exhibits positive allometry. Relative carapace length diminishes compared to the width as the crab grows. On average, the carapace is about 1.35x as broad as it is long.

Ovalipes catharus has a long period of larval development compared to other decapods – about two months with eight zoeal stages. The zoea is transparent or blackish, later develops red chromatophores, and then turns black when it moults into a megalopa. The zoea features a prominent dorsal spine and similarly prominent rostral spine. In its megalopal form, the rostrum is relatively much smaller, and the carapace – about 4.65 mm (0.18 in) long – is entirely smooth. After its megalopal form, the paddle crab has 13 distinct developmental stages, called instars, and reaches its maximum size at 3–4 years old. It is suspected that this growth is limited only by its lifespan and that it could otherwise continue to moult indefinitely once per year. Members of the isolated population of O. catharus from the Chatham Islands tend to be larger and take longer to mature than those in mainland New Zealand. O. catharus' full lifespan is 3–5 years.

Physiology and internal anatomy

Ovalipes catharus is either an osmoconformer or a weak osmoregulator. It can reverse the direction of its ventilatory flow by adjusting the sizes of apertures located at the bases of its legs, presumed to be a means of keeping particulate matter from obstructing these apertures. The apertures lead into the branchial chamber and are covered in dense setae for filtration. Unlike in most decapods, this period of reversed flow can be sustained, and it is commonly seen when the crab is buried or at rest.

Its heart is a single-chambered ventricle which ejects hemolymph to seven arteries. Five arteries, including the anterior aorta, leave the heart anteriorly and supply organs such as the cerebral ganglion, eyes, antennae, hepatopancreas, and various digestive organs. One, which leaves the heart ventrally, is called the sternal artery and accounts for nearly 70% of flow; this branches into vessels which supply its five pairs of legs, the largest of which are those supplying its rear paddles. Finally, a relatively small posterior aorta runs down the middle of the crab's abdomen.

Ovalipes catharus is a stenotherm, highly sensitive to temperature. An increase in water temperature of just a few degrees substantially accelerates its growth. At summer temperatures of about 20 °C (68 °F), O. catharus' heart rate is approximately 50 bpm. Above this temperature, its heartbeats begin to shorten. Its heart rate is more than doubled to 125 bpm at 25 °C (77 °F), and temperatures around 30 °C (86 °F) are fatal. Phosphorylation of ADP during respiration also decreases at temperatures over 20 °C (68 °F), indicating reduced ability of the mitochondria to produce ATP. At temperatures around 10 °C (50 °F) – near the lower end of what it experiences in the wild – O. catharus needs to be actively encouraged to eat, eats less overall, and takes over three times as long to digest its food as it does at 20 °C (68 °F).

Ovalipes catharus hears underwater by using a small canal system located under its first antenna called a statocyst. The statocyst contains an agglomerate of sand particles called the statolith and functions similarly to the otolith in vertebrates. O. catharus is able to hear sounds between at least 40–2000 Hz, but it is especially sensitive to the range between 100–200 Hz. It uses a yet-unknown internal mechanism to create a broad-frequency, multi-pulse "rasp" sound which is hypothesised to communicate food availability to other members of the species. Males additionally use a yet-unknown internal mechanism to produce a sub-bass sound used in their mating behaviour.

Taxonomy

Rear view of Ovalipes catharus swimming with its rear, paddle-shaped legs raised and its walking legs spread out laterally. Set against a teal, watery background with no visible seabed.
O. catharus uses its paddle-shaped rear legs to swim.

Ovalipes catharus is colloquially known as the paddle crab, the common swimming crab, or Māori: pāpaka. It was described in 1843 by zoologist Adam White from a specimen in the British Museum collected by Andrew Sinclair. Although White placed it into the genus Portunus, marine biologists William Stephenson and May Rees placed it in the genus Ovalipes based on its colour patterns in 1968. Having been misidentified as O. punctatus like three other species had prior to 1968, O. catharus is part of a distinct group of Ovalipes which also includes O. australiensis, O. elongatus, O. georgei, O. punctatus, and O. trimaculatus. O. catharus additionally closely resembles (and is likely conspecific with) a fossilised cheliped fragment from New Zealand's Upper Pleistocene. Three aspects taken together reliably distinguish O. catharus from other members of Ovalipes: fine granules on the raised ridges of the top side of its chelae, moderately fine stripes on the underside of its chelae, and a notably broad carapace (~1.35x broader than long). The following cladogram based on morphology shows the relationship between O. catharus and the other extant species of Ovalipes:

Ovalipes
     
     

Ovalipes georgei

     
     
     
     
     

Ovalipes australiensis

     

Ovalipes punctatus

     

Ovalipes elongatus

     

Ovalipes trimaculatus

     

Ovalipes catharus

     
     
     
     
     

Ovalipes ocellatus

     

Ovalipes stephensoni

     

Ovalipes floridanus

     
     

Ovalipes iridescens

     

Ovalipes molleri


Distribution and habitat

Ovalipes catharus is native to New Zealand, where it can be found from Stewart Island to Northland and in the Chatham Islands. It is also present – but uncommon – on the southern coast of Australia, where it is known as far west as the state of South Australia and as far east as Port Phillip Bay in Victoria. It lives along sandy-bottomed coastal waters, generally at depths of <10 m (33 ft) in estuaries and the subtidal zone, and it moves into the intertidal zone during the evening or the night in order to feed. It typically buries itself within the sediment during the day. Although it generally sticks to shallow waters, it can be found at depths of up to 100 m (330 ft), and the larvae can be found in deeper waters – up to at least 700 m (2,300 ft). Males and females aggregate in sheltered bays during the winter and spring breeding season. Afterward, males move into large, open beaches in spring, while females migrate to yet-unknown areas – speculated to be deeper spawning grounds for egg incubation. Anecdotal information suggests a substantial population increase since the 1970s.

Diet and foraging behaviour

The off-white shell of a lone specimen of Paphies australis sitting on a background of grey pebbles
Bivalves such as Paphies australis are a significant portion of the paddle crab's diet.

The diet of Ovalipes catharus consists predominantly of molluscs (especially of genus Paphies), crustaceans, fishes, bristle worms, and algae. Large paddle crabs tend to feed less frequently – generally on algae as well as on larger animals such as decapods and teleosts – while smaller ones prey frequently on smaller, softer crustaceans such as amphipods, isopods, mysids, and cumaceans. It frequently cannibalises smaller conspecifics and those that have recently moulted. Other O. catharus generally comprise at least several percent of the paddle crab's diet, and in some locations such as Plimmerton and Paremata, this is over 25%. It tends to eat more during the summer than during the winter. No known difference in diet exists between males and females.

The flattened hind legs and streamlined body shape of the crab allow it to swim rapidly and catch fast prey. It additionally has slender, tapered chelae which are well-suited to handling small molluscs, and correspondingly, molluscs eaten are generally less than 4 mm (0.16 in) in length. Its chelae are dimorphic, exhibiting two different forms: the left is used for cutting while the right is used for crushing. The paddles also allow the crab to stabilise itself and balance on its third pair of walking legs when digging bivalve prey out of the sand.

Predators and other interactions

A video of Ovalipes catharus retreating backward into loose, pebbly sand on the seabed, fully covering itself from back to front over a period of 6.5 seconds. The video is shot from the front at an angle of about 45 degrees to the right relative to where the crab is facing. Brownish seaweed is visible in the foreground of the shot.
O. catharus burrow in the seabed to escape predation.

Predators of the paddle crab include spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias), snapper (Pagrus auratus), rig (Mustelus lenticulatus), groper (Polyprion oxygeneios), Hector's dolphin, Buller's albatross, and the invasive crab species Charybdis japonica. Younger individuals are prone to being cannibalised, and all paddle crabs are vulnerable to cannibalism during moulting. Commercial fisheries additionally target the paddle crab. In order to escape predation, Ovalipes catharus creates temporary burrows in soft sand using its paddles, taking only several seconds on average to completely submerge itself by loosening the sand and retreating backward into the substrate. It rests horizontally under about 10–20 mm (0.39–0.79 in) of sand, sometimes leaving its eyestalks poking out.

Ecologists have raised concerns that the invasive Asian paddle crab Charybdis japonica, as it expands its range in New Zealand, could outcompete O. catharus with its similar size and diet, some overlap in habitat, high aggression, ability to best O. catharus in one-on-one competition for food, and – due to global warming – its better thermal tolerance. O. catharus appears to be largely unaffected by parasites commonly present in C. japonica; for example, it does not appear to be typically parasitised by serpulids, nematodes, or barnacles. The overwhelming majority of Ovalipes catharus are instead hosts to the ctenosome bryozoan Triticella capsularis, which forms a fur of up to almost 10 mm (0.4 in) thick on their underside after their final moult. It is only found on O. catharus, and it is speculated to be an obligate symbiont of the crab.

Mating and reproduction

A perspective looking out from a sandy, brownish-grey beach (covered in to the dark pebbles to the left and smooth to the right) toward the somewhat-distant mouth of the bay, which is flanked on either side by peninsulas. The left is steep and lightly forested, while the right is shallow and bald except for grass. Very weak waves wash up onto the shore.
During winter and spring, O. catharus meet in sheltered bays such as Little Akaloa for breeding.

Ovalipes catharus undergoes a pubertal moult at a carapace width of about 50–60 mm (2.0–2.4 in), reaching sexual maturity within the first year of benthic life. Warmer temperatures extend the breeding season, accelerate growth, and lead to earlier sexual maturity, causing variation in mating times between populations. Males and females begin to aggregate in shallow, sheltered bays during winter for mating, and breeding occurs from May to November at the time the female moults. In response to male competition near a receptive female, males become aggressive and communicate using sounds, although it is unknown if these are directed toward the female, the competing males, or both. It alternates between two sounds: a multi-pulse, low-mid frequency "zip" sound – created by rubbing the ridges on the underside of its chelae against a plectrum-like joint on its first walking legs; and a series of sub-bass vibrations – accompanied by periodic swaying but produced by a yet-unknown internal mechanism. The zip is accompanied by what may be a courtship display whereby the crab "walks forward and flicks both swimming paddles in a twisting motion."

A male paddle crab can only mate with a soft-bodied female within a four-day window of her moult, so he carries a pre-moult female under his body for up to 10 days prior to mating. A male who is otherwise hungry will generally refrain from cannibalising a suitable female partner; instead, he tends to protect the female during mating, which lasts between 12 and 36 hours and even up to four days. After mating and separation, the male can continue to identify his partner to avoid sexual cannibalism while her body is still soft, but this sometimes still happens. Protection given by males during this process when the female is vulnerable from moulting is hypothesised to explain why several locations have sex ratios skewed in favour of females.

The female is released by the male after mating and moves on to spawning grounds in what are likely deeper waters. It is not known how many egg batches can be fertilised from one insemination, but females have been observed to produce up to four or five without re-mating. In one batch, a female crab produces between 82,000 and 683,000 eggs, but like in other crabs, a proportion of these are lost to disease, egg failure, and predation. Number of eggs per batch is also strongly correlated with carapace width and body mass, with larger and heavier crabs having more. Larvae develop synchronously and are generally released at night. They are released in large numbers through vigorous waving of the female's body, which disturbs their egg cases and causes them to break out. When releasing, the female extends her legs to position herself as far above the seafloor as possible. She then angles herself slightly upward and begins flexing her abdomen to release large clouds of larvae. Females typically spawn all of their larvae at one time, but in some locations, they will release the larvae in multiple batches. The spawning season generally occurs from September to March. In total, a female paddle crab can produce up to an estimated 10 batches in a lifetime over the course of four breeding seasons.

Relation to humans

Ovalipes catharus is a common motif in Māori art, with designs being incorporated into weaving patterns, tā moko, and the designs of wharenui and whare wānanga (houses of learning). The crabs are known to be a traditional food source, but researchers in the early Colonial period did not record much about harvesting traditions.

Commercial fisheries have targeted paddle crabs since the late 1970s, mostly to the east of the North Island and the north of the South Island. The paddle crab is known for having meat with both good flavour and texture, and catch is sold both locally in New Zealand and overseas to Japan. The amount of paddle crabs landed generally increased until the late 1990s, reaching a peak at 519 t (1,144,000 lb) in 1998–1999, at which point it began generally decreasing for the next two decades, reaching an average of 16.6 t (37,000 lb) annually from the five-year period of 2017–2022. Whereas the majority of catch in the 1990s and 2000s came from the east coast of North Island and the west coast of South Island, this declined steeply in the 2010s, and catch in the 2020s has so far come almost exclusively from the east coast of South Island. The causes of this decline in catch are not well-understood.

O. catharus is known for its aggression on beaches, often pinching swimmers in New Zealand.

Notes

  1. Sometimes "New Zealand paddle crab"
  2. Sometimes "common swimming crab"
  3. This is disputed as potentially a statistical quirk.
  4. Some sources exclude the rear paddles as walking legs and refer to them independently, while others treat them as the last pair of walking legs.
  5. ^ The pubertal moult was originally identified at a carapace width of about 40 mm (1.6 in) in males and about 30–40 mm (1.2–1.6 in) in females, but this is likely erroneous, corresponding instead to a subadult phase with relatively increased growth of secondary sexual characteristics, not sexual maturity.
  6. This group – one of two – is distinguished from the rest of Ovalipes by features such as short chelipeds, large teeth to either side of the front of its carapace, and a triangular last segment of the male abdomen.
  7. Ovalipes itself sits within the monogeneric family Ovalipidae.
  8. 97.4% of O. catharus surveyed from six sites were hosts to Triticella capsularis.
  9. After four days, the female's carapace becomes too hardened to mate.
  10. In 1984, research was conducted into exporting to the United States, which had previously failed due to spoilage and lack of market interest.

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Ovalipes catharus
Portunus catharus
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