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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.
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 ...
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.
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 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.
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.
Crustacean larva. Crustaceans may pass through a number of larval and immature stages between hatching from their eggs and reaching their adult form. Each of the stages is separated by a moult, in which the hard exoskeleton is shed to allow the animal to grow. The larvae of crustaceans often bear little resemblance to the adult, and there are ...
Adm. Samuel Paparo, commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, spoke with Gen. Wu Yanan, the commander of China ’s Southern Theater, which is responsible for Beijing’s vast claims over the South ...