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Melicertus kerathurus (Forskål, 1775) 
AphiaID: 107104

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Dendrobranchiata (Suborder) > Penaeoidea (Superfamily) > Penaeidae (Family) > Melicertus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Melicertus Rafinesque, 1814
Synonymised
taxa
  Alpheus caramote Risso, 1816
Alpheus punctulatus Risso, 1822
Alpheus trisulcatus Leach, 1814 [in Leach, 1813-1814]
Cancer kerathurus Forskål, 1775
Melicertus tigrinus Rafinesque, 1814 (synonym)
Penaeus fasciatus Hope, 1851
Penaeus kerathurus (Forskål, 1775)
Peneus cristatus Risso, 1827
Peneus mars Risso, 1816
Sources  basis of record: Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Pérez Farfante, I. & B. Kensley, 1997. Penaeoid and sergestoid shrimps and prawns of the world. Keys and diagnoses for the families and genera.— Mémoires du Muséum National d’Histoire naturelle 175: 1-233. [details]

additional source: De Grave, S. & C.H.J.M. Fransen. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zool. Med. Leiden 85(9): 30.ix.2011: 195-589 figs 1-59. (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: Rafinesque, C.S. (1814). Précis des découvertes et travaux somiologiques de Mr. C.S. Rafinesque-Schmaltz entre 1800 et 1814; ou choix raisonné de ses principales découvertes en zoologie et en botanique, pour servir d'introduction à ses ouvrages futurs. Palerme. Pp. 1-55. Also lithoprint facsimile re-edition in 1948 by Peter Smith, The Murray Printing Company, Wakefield, Massachusetts 55pp; plates. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Forskål, P. (1775). Descriptiones animalium, avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium, quae in itenere orientali observavit. Hafniae: Möller. 164 p. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Leach, W.E., 1813-1814. Crustaceology. In: Brewster, D., The Edinburgh Encyclopædia: 383-437. A. Balfour, Edinburgh. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Risso, A., 1816. Histoire naturelle des crustacés des environs de Nice: 1-175, Plates 1-3. Librairie Grecque­Latine-Allemande, Paris. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Risso, A., 1822. Sur quelques nouveaux Crustacés observés dans la mer de Nice.— Journal de Physique, de Chimie et d’Histoire Naturelle 95: 242-248. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Hope, F.G., 1851. Catalogo dei crostacei Italiani e di moltri altri del Mediterraneo. Napoli Stabilimento Tipografico di Fr. Azzolino Vico Gerolomini, 10, 48 pp., 2 figs. [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Albanian gamberoni (from synonym)  [details]
Albanian gjeldeti (from synonym)  [details]
Albanian karkaleci i detit (from synonym)  [details]
Albanian lokati (from synonym)  [details]
Catalan llagostí  [details]
English camarote prawn  [details]
English prawn  [details]
English striped shrimp  [details]
English tiger shrimp  [details]
English triplegrooved shrimp  [details]
French camarote  [details]
French crevette du Maroc  [details]
French crevette royale  [details]
French crevette tigrèe  [details]
French gros ligubam  [details]
German furchengarnele  [details]
German Furchenkrebse  [details]
German Krabbe  [details]
German rote Furchenkrebse  [details]
Italian gambero imperiale  [details]
Italian mazzancolla  [details]
Italian spannocchio  [details]
Japanese kurumaebi-zoku  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Μαύρη γαρίδα  [details]
Portuguese camarao  [details]
Portuguese camarao-de-praia  [details]
Portuguese camarao-de-Quarteira  [details]
Portuguese gamba-manchada  [details]
Russian tigrovaya krevetka  [details]
Spanish langostino tigre  [details]
Wolof sipakh  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Adriatic Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Aegean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Alboran Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Angola (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Banc d'Arguin (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Cap Timiris (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Castellon (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
East Atlantic [details]
East Mediterranean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Egypt (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
FAO fishing area 34 [details]
FAO fishing area 47 [details]
Golfo de Rosas (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Gabès (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Ionian sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin [details]
Levantine Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mar Chica (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Marmara Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mauritania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mauritanian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mediterranean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Moroccan Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Moroccan Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Morocco (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Portugal (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
South Coast of England (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
South East Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Spain (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Suez canal (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Tunisie (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Vinaroz (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Specimen  Holotype (from synonym) , locality Sicily [view taxon]
Links To Barcode of Life (78 barcodes)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (90 nucleotides; 81 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Shrimp Collection
To ITIS
Images 
Penaeus kerathurus
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Penaeus kerathurus
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Penaeus kerathurus
[image from synonym]
Penaeus kerathurus
added on 2012-08-29 - author: Onbekend ()
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107104
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Türkay, Michael
2007-06-04 11:36:54Z  checked  Fransen, Charles
  
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  Citation: Fransen, C.; Türkay, M. (2013). Melicertus kerathurus (Forskål, 1775). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=107104 on 2013-05-25
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