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Arctic and Northern Atlantic: Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Svalbard.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cmmax. reported age: 1.00 years (Ref. 130103)
Maximum depth from Ref. 117328. Life span is less than 1 yr (Ref. 130103). Main food and feeding type based on another species of the same genus; to be replaced with a better reference (Ref. 96292). Found in soft bottom (Refs. 117483, 117453).
Members of the order Cumacea are gonochoric and sexually dimorphic. Spawning is characterized by nocturnal swarming behavior. Females brood the eggs in the marsupium where they molt, become mancas and leave.