Species Fenneropenaeus merguiensis (de Man, 1888)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Penaeus merguiensis de Man, J.G. 1888. Report on the Podophthalmous Crustacea of the Mergui Archipelago, collected for the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, by Dr John Anderson, F.R.S., Superintendent of the Museum. Parts I–V. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 22(136–140): 1-312 pls 1-19 [287].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RMNH D1183 ♀, Mergui Archipelago, Burma.

  Secondary source:

   De Grave, S. & Fransen, C.H.J.M. 2011. Carideorum Catalogus: The recent species of the Dendrobrachiate, Stenopodidean, Procarididean and Caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 85(9): 195-589, figs 1-59 [214].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Shark Bay, WA, to N NSW, Indo-west Pacific Oceans (Persian Gulf to Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Philippines, New Guinea, New Caledonia).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, estuary, marine, pelagic.

Trade

major commercial importance

Extra Ecological Information

Trawled over muddy substrates, juveniles enter shallow rivers and estuaries as part of life cycle, depth 10–45 m.

 

General References

Grey, D.L., Dall, W. & Baker, A. 1983. A Guide to the Australian Penaeid Prawns. Darwin : Northern Territory Government Printing Office 140 pp. 51 colour pls. [58] (colour photograph)

 

History of changes

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