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Penaeus coeruleus Stebbing, 1905. Penaeus bubulus Kubo, 1949. Penaeus monodon, commonly known as the giant tiger prawn, [1][2] Asian tiger shrimp, [3][4] black tiger shrimp, [5][6] and other names, is a marine crustacean that is widely reared for food. Tiger prawns displayed in a supermarket.
A bigclaw river shrimp. Prawns are sometimes said to be large shrimp or alternatively freshwater shrimp, but this large, freshwater creature is a caridean shrimp, and is rarely referred to as a prawn. A lot of confusion surrounds the scope of the term shrimp. Part of the confusion originates with the association of smallness.
Whiteleg shrimp. Whiteleg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei, synonym Penaeus vannamei), also known as Pacific white shrimp or King prawn, is a species of prawn of the eastern Pacific Ocean commonly caught or farmed for food.
Penaeus hathor (Burkenroad, 1959) Penaeus monodon Fabricius, 1798. Penaeus semisulcatus De Haan, 1844. Penaeus is a genus of prawns, including the giant tiger prawn (P. monodon), the most important species of farmed crustacean worldwide.
Penaeidae is a family of marine crustaceans in the suborder Dendrobranchiata, which are often referred to as penaeid shrimp or penaeid prawns. The Penaeidae contain many species of economic importance, such as the tiger prawn, whiteleg shrimp, Atlantic white shrimp, and Indian prawn. Many prawns are the subject of commercial fishery, and ...
Penaeus monodon Fabricius, 1798: 336 0–110 marine, estuarine [71] [72] [73] 210 782 992 Akiami paste shrimp Acetes japonicus Kishinouye, 1905: Most intensively fished species. They are small with black eyes and red spots on the uropods. [74] Only a small amount is sold fresh, most is dried, salted or fermented. [74] 30 shallow marine [75] [76 ...
Eukyphida. The Caridea, commonly known as caridean shrimp or true shrimp, from the Greek word καρίς, καρίδος (karís, karídos, “shrimp”), are an infraorder of shrimp within the order Decapoda. This infraorder contains all species of true shrimp. They are found widely around the world in both fresh and salt water.
Indian prawn. The Indian prawn (Fenneropenaeus indicus, formerly Penaeus indicus) is one of the major commercial prawn species of the world. It is found in the Indo-West Pacific from eastern and south-eastern Africa, through India, Malaysia and Indonesia to southern China and northern Australia. [3] Adult shrimp grow to a length of about 22 cm ...