Subgenus Penaeus (Penaeus) Fabricius, 1798

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• Penaeus Fabricius, 1798.

  Type species:

   Penaeus (Penaeus) monodon Fabricius, 1798 by original designation, see Chan, T 2023. New subgeneric names for the most commercially important shrimp genus Penaeus Fabricius, 1798 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Penaeidae). ZooKeys 1141: 29-40 [30].

• Pérez Farfante, I. 1969. Western Atlantic Shrimps of the genus Penaeus. Fishery Bulletin 67(3): iii-x 461-591
• Tirmizi, N.M. 1971. Marsupenaeus, a new subgenus of Penaeus Fabricius, 1798 (Decapoda, Natantia). Pakistan Journal of Zoology 3(2): 193-194
• Davie, P. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Phyllocarida, Hoplocarida, Eucarida (Part 1). In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.3A. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xii 551 pp. [146]

Introduction

Moved to subgenus Penaeus (Penaeus) by Chan (2023).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), 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)

General References

Chan, T 2023. New subgeneric names for the most commercially important shrimp genus Penaeus Fabricius, 1798 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Penaeidae). ZooKeys 1141: 29-40 [30]

History of changes