Synopsis of biological data of the Penaeid prawn Solenocera indica Nataraj, 1945

Abstract

In India the species is found all along the west and east coasts. Ahmad (1957) and Nataraj (1945) recorded it from East Pakistan. The material from which the original description was made was partly obtained from the Mergui Arohipelago and Singapore. Recently Hall (1956, 19627 reported the species from the west coast of Malaysia, Kubo (1949) recorded it from North Borneo and Cheung( 41960, 1963) from around Hong Kong. In terms of the FAO areas code (see Holthuis and Rosa, 1965) it is recorded from parts of sea areas ISW and ISEU, and from the coasts of land areas 423, 425, 433, 436 and 422