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Metapenaeus monoceros (Fabricius, 1798) 
AphiaID: 107107

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Dendrobranchiata (Suborder) > Penaeoidea (Superfamily) > Penaeidae (Family) > Metapenaeus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Metapenaeus Wood-Mason in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891a
Synonymised
taxa
  Metapenaeus cognatus Nobili, 1904
Metapenaeus deschampsi Nobili, 1903
Penaeopsis spinulicauda Stebbing, 1914
Penaeus monoceros Fabricius, 1798
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]

basis of record: Fischer, W. & G. Bianchi (Eds.) (1984). FAO Species identification sheets For Fisheries Purposes: Western Indian Ocean. FAO, Rome. [details]

additional source: Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453 (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: Stebbing, T.R.R., 1914b. South African Crustacea. Part VII of S.A. Crustacea, for the Marine Investigations in South Africa.— Annals of the South African Museum 15: 1-55, Plates 1-12. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Fabricius, J. C. (1798) Entomologia Systematica emendata et aucta, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species adjectis synonimis locis observationibus descriptionibus. Hafniae, Tom. II. Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae. pages 1- 572. Copenhagen. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Nobili, G., 1904. Diagnoses préliminaires de vingt-huit espèces nouvelles de stomatopodes et décapodes macroures de la Mer Rouge.— Bulletin du Muséum d’Histoire naturelle 10: 228-238.  [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Nobili, G., 1903a. Crostacei di Pondichéry, Mahé, Bombay etc.— Bolletino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della R. Università di Torino 18 (452): 1-24. [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English speckled shrimp  [details]
Environment marine, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Abu Qir Bay [details]
Bay of Bengal [details]
Cyprus [details]
Durban (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
East Coast of South Africa [details]
East London [details]
East Mediterranean [details]
Egypt [details]
Egyptian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Eritrean Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gazi Bay [details]
Great Bitter Lake [details]
Gulf of Gabès [details]
Haifa Bay [details]
India [details]
Indian Ocean [details]
Indo-West Pacific [details]
Israel [details]
Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin [details]
Kenya [details]
Liban [details]
Madagascar [details]
Malaysia [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
Mozambique [details]
Mtwapa [details]
Myanmar [details]
Natal (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Pakistan [details]
Red Sea [details]
Reunion [details]
Réunion Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Saudi Arabia [details]
Seychelles [details]
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Somalia [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Sri Lanka [details]
Sudanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Suez canal [details]
Tanzania [details]
Tanzanian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Turkey [details]
Ungama Bay [details]
Links Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Shrimp Collection
To ITIS
Image 
Metapenaeus monoceros
Metapenaeus monoceros
added on 2011-10-31 - author: Collection VLIZ
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107107
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Türkay, Michael
2010-09-09 15:15:28Z  changed  De Grave, Sammy
2011-11-03 10:33:14Z  changed  Fransen, Charles
  
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  Citation: Fransen, C.; De Grave, S.; Türkay, M. (2013). Metapenaeus monoceros (Fabricius, 1798). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=107107 on 2013-05-24
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