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• Penaeopsis batei Miers, E.J. 1884. Crustacea. Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. `Alert' 1881–2. Part I. The collections from Melanesia. Part II. Collections from the western Indian Ocean. London : British Museum. pp. 178–322, 513–575 pls 18–32, 46–51. [296 pl. 32 fig. D] [this species is poorly known and its identity is uncertain; it was listed by De Man (1911: 8) as one of a group of Penaeopsis species that have marginal spines on the telson, and because of this it would now probably belong to Metapenaeopsis, see 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(136) and de Man, J.G. 1911. Family Penaeidae. The Decapoda of the Siboga Expedition. Part I. Siboga Expeditie 39(a): 1–131].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Albany Island, E of tip of Cape York, QLD.

  Secondary source:

   de Man, J.G. 1911. Family Penaeidae. The Decapoda of the Siboga Expedition. Part I. Siboga-Expéditie Report 39(a): 1-131; 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.

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