Penaeidae

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Penaeidae
Temporal range: Triassic–Recent
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Penaeus monodon
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Dendrobranchiata
Superfamily: Penaeoidea
Family: Penaeidae
Rafinesque, 1815

Penaeidae is a family of marine crustaceans in the suborder Dendrobranchiata, which are often referred to as penaeid shrimp or penaeid prawns. The Penaeidae contain many species of economic importance, such as the tiger prawn, whiteleg shrimp, Atlantic white shrimp, and Indian prawn. Many prawns are the subject of commercial fishery, and farming, both in marine settings, and in freshwater farms. Lateral line–like sense organs on the antennae have been reported in some species of Penaeidae. [1] At 210 metres per second (760 km/h), the myelinated giant interneurons of pelagic penaeid shrimp have the world record for impulse conduction speed in any animal. [2]

Genera

Of the 48 recognised genera in the family Penaeidae, 23 are known only from the fossil record (marked †): [3]

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<i>Penaeus</i> Genus of crustaceans

Penaeus is a genus of prawns, including the giant tiger prawn, the most important species of farmed crustacean worldwide.

Farfantepenaeus notialis is a species of marine crustacean in the family Penaeidae.

<i>Rimapenaeus</i> Genus of crustaceans

Rimapenaeus is a genus of prawns. It comprises six species, including the "roughneck shrimp", Rimapenaeus constrictus:

<i>Farfantepenaeus</i> Genus of crustaceans

Farfantepenaeus is a genus of prawns in the family Penaeidae. Its eight species were formerly included in the genus Penaeus. It was first published as a genus name in 1972 by Rudolf N. Burukovsky, but without the necessary designation of a type species. That situation was corrected by the same author in 1997. The name Farfantepenaeus commemorates the Cuban carcinologist Isabel Pérez Farfante.

<i>Acanthochirana</i> Extinct genus of crustaceans

Acanthochirana is an extinct genus of prawn that existed during the upper Jurassic period. It was named by E. Strand in 1928, and its type species is Acanthochirana cordata. They are distinguished from the related genus Aeger by the presence of teeth on the rostrum, which are absent in Aeger.

<i>Benthesicymus</i> Genus of crustaceans

Benthesicymus is a genus of prawns, containing the following species:

<i>Hakelocaris</i> Genus of crustaceans

Hakelocaris vavassorii is an extinct species of prawn belonging to the family Penaeidae. It was named in 1994 by Alessandro Garassino, and is the only species in the genus Hakelocaris.

<i>Metapenaeopsis</i> Genus of crustaceans

Metapenaeopsis, the velvet shrimps, is a prawn genus in the family Penaeidae. It contains these species:

<i>Sicyonia</i> Genus of crustaceans

Sicyonia is a genus of prawns, placed in its own family, Sicyoniidae. It differs from other prawns in that the last three pairs of its pleopods are uniramous, rather than biramous as seen in all other prawns.

<i>Litopenaeus</i> Genus of crustaceans

Litopenaeus is a genus of prawns, formerly included in the genus Penaeus. It contains five species:

<i>Marsupenaeus</i> Genus of crustaceans

Marsupenaeus is a monotypic genus of prawn. It contains a single species, Marsupenaeus japonicus, known as the kuruma shrimp, kuruma prawn, or Japanese tiger prawn. It occurs naturally in bays and seas of the Indo-West Pacific, but has also reached the Mediterranean Sea as a Lessepsian migrant. It is one of the largest species of prawns, and is accordingly one of the most economically important species in the family.

Isabel Pérez Farfante was a Cuban-born carcinologist. She was the first Cuban woman to receive her Ph.D. from an Ivy League school. She returned to Cuba from the United States only to be blacklisted by Fidel Castro's government. She and her family escaped Cuba, and she became one of the world's foremost zoologists studying prawns. She discovered large populations of shrimp off the coast of Cuba and published one of the most noted books on shrimps: "Penaeoid and Sergestoid Shrimps and Prawns of the World. Keys and Diagnoses for the Families and Genera."

<i>Trachysalambria curvirostris</i> Species of crustacean

Trachysalambria curvirostris is a species of prawn that lives in shallow waters of the Indo-West Pacific. It is one of the most important species targeted by prawn fishery, with annual harvests of more than 300,000 t, mostly landed in China.

<i>Trachysalambria</i> Genus of crustaceans

Trachysalambria is a genus of prawns, containing ten species. It was erected in 1934 by Martin Burkenroad, as a subgenus of Trachypenaeus, with T. curvirostris as its type species. That subgenus was elevated to the rank of genus in 1997 by Isabel Pérez Farfante and Brian Kensley. The ten species are:

<i>Farfantepenaeus aztecus</i> Species of shrimp

Farfantepenaeus aztecus is a species of marine penaeid shrimps found around the east coast of the US and Mexico. They are an important commercial species in the US. The FAO refers to them as the northern brown shrimp; other common names, used in the US, are brown shrimp, golden shrimp, red shrimp or redtail shrimp.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aristeidae</span> Family of crustaceans

Aristeidae is a family of Dendrobranchiata decapod crustaceans known as deep-sea shrimps, gamba prawns or gamba shrimps. Some species are subject to commercial fisheries.

<i>Solenocera</i> Genus of prawns

Solenocera is a genus of prawns in the family Solenoceridae. Solenocera occur from 0 to 2,067 meters deep in the ocean.

Metapenaeopsis commensalis is a species of crustacean in the family Penaeidae first described by Lancelot Alexander Borradaile in 1898.

Metapenaeopsis miersi is a crustacean species in the family Penaeidae described by Lipke Bijdeley Holthuis in 1952.

References

  1. E. J. Denton; John Gray (1985). "Lateral-line-like antennae of certain of the Penaeidea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Natantia)". Proceedings of the Royal Society B . 226 (1244): 249–261. doi:10.1098/rspb.1985.0094.
  2. Ke Hsu & Susumu Terakawa (1998). "Fenestration in the myelin sheath of nerve fibers of the shrimp: A novel node of excitation for saltatory conduction". Journal of Neurobiology . 30 (3): 397–409. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-4695(199607)30:3<397::AID-NEU8>3.0.CO;2-#. PMID   8807532.
  3. Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology . Suppl. 21: 1–109.