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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMelicertus canaliculatus (Olivier, 1811) 
AphiaID: 377467

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) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMelicertus (Genus)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMelicertus Rafinesque, 1814
Synonymised
taxa		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPenaeus canaliculatus (Olivier, 1811)
Sources  basis of record 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]

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Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorwitch prawn [from synonym]  [details]
Environment marine, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution 
From regional or thematic species database
South Africa
Trusted: edited by a thematic editorEast London [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
South Pacific Ocean
Trusted: edited by a thematic editorIndo-West Pacific [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Trusted: edited by a thematic editorTorres Strait [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Taiwan
Trusted: edited by a thematic editorTaiwan [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
(no group)
Trusted: edited by a thematic editorSouth East Africa [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
From other sources
Eritrea
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorEritrea [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Federal Republic of Somalia
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorSomalia [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Indian Ocean
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMalay Archipelago [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorReunion [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorRéunion Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Kenya
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorKenya [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Madagascar
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMadagascar [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Mauritius
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMauritius [details]
Mozambique
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMozambique [details]
Red Sea
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorRed Sea [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
South Pacific Ocean
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorFrench Polynesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Tanzania
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTanzania [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
(no group)
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorEastern Africa & Madagascar [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorNew Caledonian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorPolynesia [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank (9 nucleotides; 6 proteins) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo USNM Invertebrate Zoology Shrimp Collection 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:377467
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-12-10 09:34:26Z  created  Pan, Marianne
2010-09-09 15:21:07Z  checked  De Grave, Sammy
  
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  Citation: De Grave, S. (2013). Melicertus canaliculatus (Olivier, 1811). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=377467 on 2014-03-12
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