Marsupenaeus japonicus   (Bate,  1888) (Prawn)
Organism information awaits expert curation
Taxonomy
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order:Decapoda
Family:Penaeidae

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Description
Size: 19.0 cm TL (male/unsexed); 22.5 cm TL (female); maximum carapace length 5.3 cm (male); 6.6 cm (female)

Synonym (s)
• Penaeus canaliculatus var. japonicus Bate, 1888
(Senior synonym)
• Penaeus japonicus Bate, 1888
(Senior synonym)
• Penaeus canaliculatus var. japonicus Spence Bate, 1888
• Penaeus pulchricaudatus Stebbing, 1914b
Common Name (s)
Economic Importance and Threats
Ecology
Habitat:  Demersal, Estuarine
Biogeography


• Tamil Nadu, Chennai (Lat: 13.09) (Long: 80.29) INDIA
• West Bengal, South 24 Parganas INDIA
Literature Source(s)
  • Das, BC and Raychaudhuri, DN (1983) Aphids (Homoptera: Aphididae) of Nepal Occasional paper no 51 Records of the Zoological Survey of India ZSI 28856
  • Debelius, H (2001) Crustacea Guide of the world 11-318 Available at - CMFRI, Kochi
  • Society for the Management of European Biodiversity Data (2009) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) Available at - http://www.marinespecies.org
  • Sealifebase Available at - http://www.sealifebase.org/
  • Roy, MK (2010) Diversity and Distribution of Crustacea Fauna in wetlands of West Bengal Journal of Environment and Sociobiology Social Environmental and Biological Association, Kolkata, India 7(2) 147-187 Available at - NIO,Goa
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