Morphological Characters for Inshore Penaeid prawns from Indian Waters

Pillai, S Lakshmi (2022) Morphological Characters for Inshore Penaeid prawns from Indian Waters. In: ICAR-CMFRI -Winter School on Recent Development in Taxonomic Techniques of Marine Fishes for Conservation and Sustainable Fisheries Management. ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, pp. 410-420.

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    Abstract

    Penaeid prawns are distributed all along the Indian coast and inhabit inshore or offshore waters. They have a general life span of 2 to 2.5 years, maturing mostly between 6 – 8 months. They spawn in oceanic waters but the large number of eggs released by them develop through different stages and drift to estuaries. Here they develop into juvenile prawns. From the estuaries, they move to the sea to mature and spawn, and complete their life cycle. Most of the penaeid prawns spawn throughout their life. They are bisexual and mature females are larger than males. Petasma is the copulatory organ in males formed between the first pair of pleopods or swimming appendage and in females the genitalia termed thelycum consisting of the modifications of the posterior two or sometime three thoracic sternites, for the transfer or storage of sperms.

    Item Type: Book Section
    Subjects: Crustacean Fisheries
    Crustacean Fisheries > Prawn and Prawn fisheries
    Fish and Fisheries > Fish Taxonomy
    Divisions: CMFRI-Kochi > Marine Capture > Crustacean Fisheries Division
    Subject Area > CMFRI > CMFRI-Kochi > Marine Capture > Crustacean Fisheries Division
    CMFRI-Kochi > Marine Capture > Crustacean Fisheries Division
    Subject Area > CMFRI-Kochi > Marine Capture > Crustacean Fisheries Division
    Depositing User: Arun Surendran
    Date Deposited: 29 Jan 2022 07:50
    Last Modified: 10 Feb 2022 10:53
    URI: http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/id/eprint/15736

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