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Penaeus monodon Fabricius, 1798 
AphiaID: 210378

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Dendrobranchiata (Suborder) > Penaeoidea (Superfamily) > Penaeidae (Family) > Penaeus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Penaeus Fabricius, 1798
Parent Penaeus Fabricius, 1798
Synonymised
taxa
  Penaeus bubulus Kubo, 1949 (synonym)
Penaeus carinatus Dana, 1852
Penaeus coeruleus Stebbing, 1905 (synonym)
Penaeus durbani Stebbing, 1917
Penaeus semisulcatus exsulcatus Hilgendorf, 1879
Penaeus tahitensis Heller, 1862
Sources  original description: 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]

basis of record: Fischer, W. & G. Bianchi (Eds.) (1984). FAO Species identification sheets For Fisheries Purposes: Western Indian Ocean. FAO, Rome. [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: Felder, D. L., F. Álvarez, J. W. Goy, and R. Lemaitre. 2009. Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, with Comments on the Amphionidacea, Pp. 1019–1104 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas [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]

additional source: Holthuis, L.B., 1949a. The identity of Penaeus monodon Fabr.— Proceedings van de Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen 52: 1051-1057.  [details]

from synonym: Kubo, I., 1949a. Studies on penaeids of Japanese and its adjacent waters.— Journal of the Tokyo College of Fisheries 36: 1-467. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Stebbing, T.R.R., 1905. South African Crustacea. Part III.— Marine Investigations in South Africa 4: 21-­123, Plates 17-26. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Dana J.D. (1852a). Conspectus crustaceorum quae in orbis terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wikles e classe Reipublicae Faederatae Duce, lexit et descripsit Jacobus D.Dana, Pars III (Amphipoda n°1). Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences., 2, 201-220. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Heller, C., 1862a. Neue Crustaceen, gesammelt während der Weltumseglung der k.k. Fregatte Novara. Zweiter vorläufiger Bericht.— Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12: 519-528.  [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Hilgendorf, F. 1878 (1879). Die von Herrn W. Peters in Mocambique gesammelten Crustaceen.-- Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie des Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1879: 782-851 (4 plates). [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Stebbing, T.R.R., 1917a. The Malacostraca of Durban Bay Annals of the Durban Museum, 1(4): 435-450. pls.22-23. [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English giant tiger prawn  [details]
Direct child
taxa

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Subspecies Penaeus monodon manillensis Villaluz & Arriola, 1938 accepted as Penaeus semisulcatus De Haan, 1844 [in De Haan, 1833-1850]
Environment marine, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Archipel malais [details]
Australia [details]
Burma [details]
Cambodia [details]
Cape of Good Hope (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
East Africa [details]
East Coast of South Africa [details]
East London (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Eritrea [details]
FAO fishing area 34 [details]
FAO fishing area 47 [details]
French Polynesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Germany [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
India [details]
Indo-West Pacific [details]
Japan [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
Malay Archipelago [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mayotte Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Mozambique [details]
Mtwapa [details]
Nahoon River (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
New Caledonian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North Australia [details]
Pakistan [details]
Philippines [details]
Red Sea [details]
Reunion [details]
Réunion Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Senegal [details]
Somalia [details]
South Africa [details]
South East Africa [details]
Tanzania [details]
Ungama Bay [details]
Vietnamese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Western Indian Ocean [details]
Specimen  Neotype , locality Jakarta Bay [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (54 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FAO Cultured Aquatic species fact sheets
To FAO Species fact sheets
To GenBank (100956 nucleotides; 594 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Shrimp Collection
To ITIS
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Penaeus monodon
Penaeus monodon
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Penaeus monodon
Penaeus monodon
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:210378
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-06-07 07:51:36Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2007-06-04 11:36:54Z  checked  Fransen, Charles
2010-09-09 15:15:28Z  changed  De Grave, Sammy
2011-11-03 13:04:42Z  changed  Fransen, Charles
  
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  Citation: Fransen, C.; De Grave, S. (2013). Penaeus monodon Fabricius, 1798. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210378 on 2013-05-22
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