Generic Characters of Metapenaeus Wood-Mason, 1891

Deshmukh, V D (2011) Generic Characters of Metapenaeus Wood-Mason, 1891. In: Handbook of Prawns. Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, pp. 27-36.

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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; Metapenaeus Wood-Mason
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 10:32
Last Modified:	09 Sep 2015 15:53
URI:	http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/id/eprint/9057

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