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Systematics ii – Taxonomic considerations and General distribution –Prawn fisheries

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Title Systematics ii – Taxonomic considerations and
General distribution –Prawn fisheries
 
Creator George, M J
 
Subject Prawn and Prawn fisheries
 
Description The prawns and shrimps of commerce of India belong to 3 major families, namely Penaeidae,
Palaemonidae and Sergestidae of the decapod suborder Natantia. A few deep water forms belonging to
the family Pandalidae are also gaining commercial importance with the result of recent exploratory fishing
activities. There has been much confusion in the usage of terms prawns and shrimps. At the Prawn Symposium
of the Indo-Pacific Fisheries Council held at Tokyo in 1955 it was decided that the term prawn should be
applied to the Penaeids, Pandalids and Palaemonids, while the use of the term shrimp should be restricted
to the smaller forms belonging to other families. According to this most of the forms of economic importance
here are to be termed prawns.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Contributor CMFRI, Kochi
 
Date 1969
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/591/1/MJ_George.pdf
George, M J (1969) Systematics ii – Taxonomic considerations and General distribution –Prawn fisheries. In: CMFRI Bulletin 14; Prawn fisheries of India. CMFRI, Mandapam Camp, pp. 5-48.