Fenneropenaeus
| Fenneropenaeus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Dendrobranchiata |
| Family: | Penaeidae |
| Genus: | Fenneropenaeus Pérez Farfante, 1969 [1] |
Fenneropenaeus is a subgenus of Penaeus dendrobranch prawns, for some time considered as a separate genus. It was elevated to a genus in 1997,[2] and returned as a subgenus in 2023.[3] It contains six species:
- P. (Fe.) chinensis - Chinese white prawn
- P. (Fe.) orientalis
- P. (Fe.) indicus - Indian white prawn
- P. (Fe.) merguiensis - banana prawn
- P. (Fe.) penicillatus - redtail prawn
- P. (Fe.) silasi
Taxonomy
[edit]Fenneropenaeus was first defined in 1969 by Isabel Pérez Farfante, as one of four subgenera of Penaeus, the other three being Litopenaeus, Penaeus, and Melicertus. She stated that the name honours Fenner A. Chase Jr., "whose advice through the years has been very helpful to me in my studies". The type species was designated as Penaeus indicus H. Milne Edwards, 1837. The original circumscription included four Indo-Pacific species: indicus, merguiensis, penicillatus, and orientalis.[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ Sammy De Grave (2011). "Fenneropenaeus Pérez Farfante, 1969". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2026-07-24.
- ↑ Isabel Pérez Farfante, Brian Frederick Kensley (1997). Penaeoid and Sergestoid Shrimps and Prawns of the World: Keys and Diagnoses for the Families and Genera. Mémoires du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Vol. 175. Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. pp. 1–233. ISBN 978-2-85653-510-3.
- ↑ Chan, Tin-Yam (2023-01-17). "New subgeneric names for the most commercially important shrimp genus Penaeus Fabricius, 1798 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Penaeidae)". ZooKeys (1141): 29–40. Bibcode:2023ZooK.1141...29C. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1141.97349. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 10207927. PMID 37234967.
- ↑ Perez Farfante, Isabel (1969). "Western Atlantic Shrimps of the Genus Penaeus". Fishery Bulletin. 69 (3). U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Bureau of Commercial Fisheries: 461–591 – via The OAKTrust Digital Repository.
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