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Metapenaeus affinis (H.Milne Edwards, 1837 [in Milne Edwards, 1834-1840]) 
AphiaID: 210397

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
  Hymenopenaeus affinis
Metapenaeus ivanovi Hassan, 1978
Metapenaeus mutatus (Lanchester, 1901)
Metapenaeus necopinans Hall, 1956
Penaeus affinis H. Milne Edwards, 1837 [in H. Milne Edwards, 1834-1840]
Penaeus mutatis Lanchester, 1901
Sources  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: 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: Kubo, I., 1954. Systematic studies on the Japanese macrurous decapod Crustacea. 2. On two penaeids, Metapenaeus affinis (H. Milne Edwards) and M. burkenroadi, nom. nov., erected on the Japanese form known as M. affinis.— Journal of the Tokyo University of Fisheries 41: 89-93. [details]

original description (from synonym): Milne Edwards, H., 1834-1840. Histoire naturelle des Crustacés, comprenant l’anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux: 1-468, 1-532, 1-638, 1-32, Plates 1-42. Librairie encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. [details] [view taxon]

original description (from synonym): Lanchester, W.F., 1901. On the Crustacea collected during the ”Skeat” Expedition to the Malay Peninsula, together with a note on the genus Actæopsis. Part I. Brachyura, Stomatopoda, and Macrura.— Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 2: 534-574, Plates 33-34. [details] [view taxon]

original description (from synonym): Hall, D.N.F., 1956. The Malayan Penaeidae (Crustacea, Decapoda). Part I. Introductory notes on the species of the genera Solenocera, Penaeus, and Metapenaeus.— Bulletin of the Raffles Museum 27: 68-90, Plates 8-12.  [details] [view taxon]

original description (from synonym): Hassan, A.M., 1978. Shrimps of the coastal waters of Iraq and Kuwait with the description of two new species of the genus Metapenaeus (Crustacea, Decapoda, Penaeidae) [in Russian].— Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 57: 385-390.  [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English Jinga shrimp  [details]
Environment marine, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Andaman Islands [details]
Arabian Sea [details]
East Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Hawaii [details]
Hong Kong [details]
India [details]
Indian Ocean [details]
Indonesia [details]
Izmir Bay [details]
Japan [details]
Malay Archipelago [details]
Malaysia [details]
Nicobar Islands [details]
Papua New Guinea [details]
Philippines [details]
Singapore [details]
Sri Lanka [details]
Taiwan [details]
Thailand [details]
West Pacific [details]
Specimens  Nontype: ESFM MAL/ 2008-999, locality Izmir Bay [details]
Holotype (from synonym) , locality Kerala (India) [view taxon]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (16 nucleotides; 10 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Shrimp Collection
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:210397
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-11-05 09:36:46Z  created  Fondo, Esther
2008-12-10 10:07:28Z  changed  Decock, Wim
2010-09-09 15:15:28Z  changed  De Grave, Sammy
  
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  Citation: De Grave, S. (2013). Metapenaeus affinis (H.Milne Edwards, 1837 [in Milne Edwards, 1834-1840]). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210397 on 2013-06-20
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