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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.
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.
Prawn is a common name for small aquatic crustaceans with an exoskeleton and ten legs (members of the order of decapods), some of which are edible. [1] The term prawn[2] is used particularly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Commonwealth nations, for large swimming crustaceans or shrimp, especially those with commercial significance in the ...
Macrobrachium rosenbergii. De Man, 1879. Macrobrachium rosenbergii, also known as the giant river prawn or giant freshwater prawn, is a commercially important species of palaemonid freshwater prawn. It is found throughout the tropical and subtropical areas of the Indo-Pacific region, from India to Southeast Asia and Northern Australia. [ 2 ]
Penaeus semisulcatus has a pale brown body which sometimes shows a greenish tint on the carapace with two yellow or cream tansverse bands across the back of the carapace. The abdomen is banded with brownish grey and pale-yellow transverse bands, while the antennae are banded brown and yellow. It has a uniformly smooth carapace and abdomen.
Species: Yellow head virus. Yellowhead disease (YHD) is a viral infection of shrimp and prawn, in particular of the giant tiger prawn (Penaeus monodon), one of the two major species of farmed shrimp. The disease is caused by the Yellow head virus genotype 1 (YHV1), a positive-strand RNA virus related to coronaviruses and arteriviruses.
The snapping shrimp grows to 3–5 cm (1.2–2.0 in) long. Its disproportionately large claw, larger than half the shrimp's body, is a dimorphic addition to the arsenal of the shrimp. The claw can be on either arm of the body, and, unlike most shrimp claws, does not have typical pincers at the end. Rather, it has a pistol-like feature made of ...
William Aitcheson Haswell arrived in Australia in 1878, and began working in a marine zoology laboratory at Watsons Bay.In 1879, he described Penaeus esculentus in a paper in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, basing his description on material in the Macleay Museum which had come from Port Jackson and Port Darwin, and noting that P. esculentus is "the common edible ...