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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLitopenaeus Pérez Farfante, 1969 
AphiaID: 158335

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorArthropoda (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCrustacea (Subphylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMalacostraca (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEumalacostraca (Subclass) > Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorEucarida (Superorder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorDecapoda (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorDendrobranchiata (Suborder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPenaeoidea (Superfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPenaeidae (Family)
Status accepted
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPenaeus vannamei Boone, 1931 (type by original designation)
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPenaeidae Rafinesque, 1815
Sources  original description Pérez Farfante, I., 1969. Western Atlantic shrimps of the genus Penaeus.— Fishery Bulletin 67: 461-591.  [details]

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[show all]		 Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLitopenaeus occidentalis (Streets, 1871)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLitopenaeus schmitti (Burkenroad, 1936)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLitopenaeus setiferus (Linnaeus, 1767)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLitopenaeus stylirostris (Stimpson, 1871)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLitopenaeus vannamei (Boone, 1931)
Environment marine
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo ITIS
Images Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editor[show unreviewed]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158335
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-05-25 08:24:16Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2008-12-10 08:11:01Z  changed  Decock, Wim
2010-09-09 08:44:48Z  changed  De Grave, Sammy
  
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  Citation: De Grave, S. (2013). Litopenaeus Pérez Farfante, 1969. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158335 on 2013-12-10
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