• Megokris Pérez Farfante, I. & Kensley, B. 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, Paris [1936-1950] 175: 1-233 [95].

  Type species:

   Penaeus granulosus Haswell, 1879 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [216]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific.

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

History of changes

• Trachypenaeus gonospinifer Racek, A.A. & Dall, W. 1965. Littoral Penaeinae (Crustacea Decapoda) from northern Australia, New Guinea and adjacent waters. Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen [Verh. Akad. Amsterdam] 56(3): 1-119 figs 1-16 pls 1-13 [89 fig. 15, pls 7, 12].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P14654 ♀, S of Port Romilly, New Guinea.
  Paratype(s) RMNH D23288 ♂ ♀, Chambers Bay, NT, Australia; AM P14657 2♀; AM P14658 1♀; AM P14656 3♂ 1♀; AM P14655 1♂.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

From Joseph Bonaparte Gulf through the Arafura Sea to the Gulf of Papua, New Guinea.

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, pelagic.

Extra Ecological Information

Trawled over muddy substrates, depth 13–52 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. [116] (colour photograph)

History of changes

• Penaeus granulosus Haswell, W.A. 1879. On the Australian species of Penaeus, in the Macleay Museum, Sydney. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4, 1879: 38-44 [41].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM P40464 ♀, Darnley Island, Cape Grenville, Torres Strait, N QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) AM P40463 2♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Griffin, D.J.G. 1970. A re-examination of the type material of Penaeus granulosus Haswell, 1879 (Decapoda, Penaeidae). Crustaceana 19(1): 99-102.
• Trachypenaeus salaco de Man, J.G. 1907. Diagnoses of new species of Macrurous Decapod Crustacea from the "Siboga-Expedition" II. Notes from the Leyden Museum 29: 127-145 [135].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMA ♂, Tual Anchorage, Kei Ils, Indonesia (Siboga Stn 205); ZMA ♂, Lohio Bay, Buton Strait, Indonesia (Siboga Stn 205).
• Trachypenaeus furcilla Hall, D.N.F. 1961. Further taxonomic notes on the Malayan species. The Malayan Penaeidae (Crustacea, Decapoda) Part 2. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum 26: 76-119 [102].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH B45 ♂ adult, Outer Shoal, Malaysia.
  Paratype(s) BMNH B73 1♂ adult.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Dall, W. 1957. A revision of the Australian species of Penaeinae (Crustacea Decapoda: Penaeidae). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 8(2): 136-230 figs 1-29 [211] (but T. pescadoreensis Schmitt, 1931, is removed from synonymy as this species is considered valid by Motoh, H. & Buri, P. 1984. Studies on the penaeoid prawns of the Philippines. Researches on Crustacea 13–14: 1–120 [92])

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

From NW Cape York to Princess Charlotte Bay, QLD, also Indo-west Pacific Oceans (Arabian Gulf east through Indo-Malaysia, to Taiwan, Philippines and southern New Guinea).

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, pelagic.

Trade

little commercial significance

Extra Ecological Information

Trawled over mud substrates, depth 9–81 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. [118] (colour photograph)

History of changes