Generic Characters of Parapenaeopsis Alcock, 1901

Sarada, P T (2011) Generic Characters of Parapenaeopsis Alcock, 1901. In: Handbook of Prawns. Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, pp. 37-44.

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Abstract

Integument variably pubescent, sometimes almost entirely glaborous; rostrum armed with dorsal teeth only; epigastric tooth often conspicuously separated from first rostral tooth; orbital and pterygostomian spines lacking; antennal and hepatic spine pronounced; gastro-orbital carina absent; hepatic sulcus anterior to hepatic spine well-defined and accompanied by ventral carina often descending almost vertically from spine then turning towards pterygostomian angle; sulcus posterior to hepatic spine ill defined or absent; sixth abdominal somite bearing single continuous cicatrix, or latter interrupted into two or three parts; telson lacking fixed subapical spines but bearing movable, sometimes minute and very numerous posterolateral ones.

Item Type: Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords: Generic Characters; Parapenaeopsis Alcock
Subjects: Crustacean Fisheries
Crustacean Fisheries > Prawn and Prawn fisheries
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: 19 Oct 2012 10:31
Last Modified: 09 Sep 2015 15:53
URI: http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/id/eprint/9058

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