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CAAB Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Arthropoda (phylum) » Malacostraca (class) » Decapoda (order) » Penaeidae (family)
| CAAB Code: | 28 711046 |
| Scientific Name and Authority: | Penaeus pulchricaudatus Stebbing, 1914 |
| CAAB category: | 28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.) | |
| Family: | Penaeidae (penaeid prawns) - show full list | |
| Common Name: | Australian Kuruma Prawn | |
| Common Names List: | tiger prawn kuruma australia prawn Australian kuruma prawn | |
| Recent Synonyms: | Penaeus japonicus Penaeus (Marsupenaeus) japonicus Marsupenaeus japonicus (all mis-identifications) | |
| Taxon lists: |
Current Australian list:
 Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
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| Regions: |
Australia (inc. subantarctic territories) Tropical Indo-West Pacific Indian Ocean (non coastal) | |
| Habitat: |
Marine unspecified | |
| Parent Codes: |
28 711912
Penaeus spp. | |
| Organism Type: | a penaeid prawn |
| Taxon Notes: | This species, from SE Asia, Australia, the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, has previously been confused with the true Kuruma Prawn P. japonicus from the South China Sea. See Tsoi et al, 2014. This code replaces previous (interim) CAAB code 00 701305 (FISHLIST 701305). FAO code KUP (part). | ||||
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| Record source: | Davie, P.J.F., 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Phyllocarida, Hoplocarida, Eucarida (Part 1). In: Wells, A. Houston, W.W.K., Editors, Zoological Catalogue of Australia., 19.3A. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 551pp. |
| Scientific Name verified against: | Tsoi, K.H. Ma, K.Y. Wu, T.H. Fennessy, S.T. Chu, K.H. Chan, T.Y., 2014. Verification of the cryptic species Penaeus pulchricaudatus in the commercially important kuruma shrimp P. japonicus (Decapoda: Penaeidae) using molecular taxonomy., Invertebrate Systematics, Vol. 28: 476-490. |