FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes Western

956 Shrimps and Prawns
Other major groups of shrimps and prawns occurring in the area
Sergestoidea: body strongly compressed laterally; shell
soft; rostrum and last 2 pairs of legs reduced or absent;
males with large copulatory organ on first abdominal
appendage; eggs usually released directly into water,
not retained by the female.
Penaeoidea: first 3 pairs of legs forming a pincer, none
of them particularly large; with large copulatory organ,
on first pair of pleopods in males, and on posterior
thoracic sternites in females; eggs released directly into
water, not retained by the female.
3
Caridea: third leg without pincer; pleuron of second
abdominal segment greatly expanded and overlapping
those of first and third segments.
rd maxilliped
first 3
legs with
pincer
List of species occurring in the area
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2
3
4 5
Penaeoidea
Engystenopus palmipes Alcock and Anderson, 1894
Engystenopus spinulatus Holthuis, 1946
Microprosthema scabricaudatum Richters, 1880
Microprosthema validum Stimpson, 1860
Odontozona ensifera (Danna, 1852)
Odontozona sculpticaudata Holthuis, 1946
Paraspongicola pusilla De Saint Laurent and Cleva, 1981
Spongicola henshawi Rathbun, 1906
Spongicola holthuisi De Saint Laurent and Cleva, 1981
Spongicola inflata De Saint Laurent and Cleva, 1981
Spongicola venusta De Haan, 1841
? Spongicoloides japonica (Kubo, 1942)
(after Liu, 1955)
Stenopus chrysexanthus Goy, 1992
Stenopus cyanoscelis Goy, 1984
Stenopus devaneyi Goy and Randall, 1984
Stenopus hispidus (Olivier, 1811)
Stenopus pyronotus Goy and Davaney, 1980
Stenopus tenuirostris De Man, 1888
Stenopus zanzibaricus Bruce, 1976
1
2
3
no
pincer
rostrum short or absent
Sergestoidea
4
5
females carry
eggs on abdomen
Caridea
2 nd pleuron
expanded,
pear-shaped