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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Arthropoda (phylum)  »  Malacostraca (class)  »  Decapoda (order)  »  Penaeidae (family)

CAAB Code: 28 711047 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority:

Melicertus latisulcatus   (Kishinouye, 1896)

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.)

Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF)

Image by: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection
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Rights: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection
Family: 28 711 Penaeidae (penaeid prawns) - show full list
Common Name
(AS 5300): 		Western King Prawn
Common Names List: western king prawn
blue-legged king prawn
Organism Type: a penaeid prawn
Synonyms: Penaeus latisulcatus
Penaeus (Melicertus) laticulcatus
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Marine unspecified
Parent Codes: 28 711925     Melicertus spp.
Previous Codes
(if any):		 00 701910, 701910, 00 701904, 701904
Distribution map:
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Occurrence locations [145] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records
Taxon Notes:This code replaces previous (interim) CAAB codes 00 701904 and 00 701910 (FISHLIST 701904 and 701910). FAO code WKP.
Scientific Name Notes:Pérez Farfante & Kensley (1997) revised the genus Penaeus, splitting it into several genera, the status of which have been subject to considerable controversy since. We have elected here to maintain this genus with full generic status, following De Grave & Francen, 2011. At this stage, three names for this species (Penaeus latisulcatus, Penaeus (Melicertus) latisulcatus and Melicertus latisulcatus) will be encountered in the literature, with no real consensus on which is more valid.

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:505b5bd1-bffa-4697-bcc7-e7d7e871d5da
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
ITIS 95632
View at ITIS
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:377468
Name status: unaccepted    Checked on: 2022-04-14
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
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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:		 De Grave, S., Fransen, C.H.J.M., 2011. Carideorum Catalogus: The Recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda)., Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden, Vol. 85(9): 195-589.
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