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CAAB Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Arthropoda (phylum) » Malacostraca (class) » Decapoda (order) » Penaeidae (family)
| CAAB Code: | 28 711050 |
| Scientific Name and Authority: | Penaeus merguiensis De Man, 1888 |
| CAAB category: | 28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.) | Distribution map: |
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| Family: | Penaeidae (penaeid prawns) - show full list | |
| Common Name: | Banana Prawn | |
| Common Names List: | white banana prawn banana prawn white prawn | |
| Recent Synonyms: | Fenneropenaeus merguiensis Penaeus (Fenneropenaeus) merguiensis | |
| 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 | |
| Habitat: |
Marine unspecified | |
| Parent Codes: |
28 711912
Penaeus spp. | |
| Organism Type: | a penaeid prawn |
| Taxon Notes: | This code replaces previous (interim) CAAB code 00 701901 (FISHLIST 701901). FAO code PBA. | ||||||||
| Scientific Name Notes: | Pérez Farfante & Kensley (1997) revised the genus Penaeus, splitting it into several genera, the status of which since have been subject to considerable controversy. Davie (2002) regarded these as of subgeneric status only. Recent genetic work by Ma et al (2011) has shown that these groups are closely related and do not currently warrant separation from Penaeus, which we follow here. Three names for this species (Penaeus merguiensis, Penaeus (Fenneropenaeus) merguinensis and Fenneropenaeus merguiensis) will still be encountered in the literature. | ||||||||
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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: | Ma, K.Y. Chan, T.-Y. Chu, K.H., 2011. Refuting the six-genus classification of Penaeus s.l. (Dendrobranchiata, Penaeidae): a combined analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear genes., Zoologica Scripta, Vol. 40: 498-508. |