Litopenaeus

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Litopenaeus
Litopenaeus stylirostris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Penaeidae
Genus: Litopenaeus
Pérez Farfante, 1967 [1]
External identifiers for Litopenaeus
Encyclopedia of Life 15160
ITIS 551566
NCBI 122377
WoRMS 158335
Also found in: Wikispecies

Litopenaeus is a genus of prawns, formerly included in the genus Penaeus.[2] It contains five species:[3]

  • Litopenaeus occidentalis (Streets, 1871)
  • Litopenaeus schmitti (Burkenroad, 1936)
  • Litopenaeus setiferus (Linnaeus, 1767)
  • Litopenaeus stylirostris (Stimpson, 1871)
  • Litopenaeus vannamei (Boone, 1931)

References

  1. Sammy De Grave (2011). "Litopenaeus Pérez Farfante, 1969". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved February 5, 2012. 
  2. 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 175. Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. pp. 1–233. ISBN 978-2-85653-510-3. 
  3. S. De Grave & C. H. J. M. Fransen (2011). "Carideorum Catalogus: the Recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda)". Zoologische Mededelingen 85 (9): 195–589, figs. 1–59. ISBN 978-90-6519-200-4. 
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