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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 711093 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority
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Penaeus japonicus   Spence Bate, 1888

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.)
Family: 28 711 Penaeidae (penaeid prawns) - show full list
Common Name: Kuruma Prawn
Common Names List: kuruma prawn
Organism Type: a penaeid prawn
Synonyms: Penaeus (Marsupenaeus) japonicus
Marsupenaeus japonicus
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Special purpose listing - see taxon notes
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Marine unspecified
Parent Codes: 28 711912     Penaeus spp.
Taxon Notes:This species from the South China Sea and East China Sea, has previously been confused with P. pulchricaudatus in SE Asia, Australia, the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. See Tsoi et al, 2014. FAO code KUP (part).

Identifiers:
ITIS 95628
View at ITIS
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:210371
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-12
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
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Record source: 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.
Scientific Name
verified against
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WoRMS, WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species. . Available from http: www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
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