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Generic Characters of Metapenaeus Wood-Mason, 1891

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Title Generic Characters of
Metapenaeus Wood-Mason, 1891
 
Creator Deshmukh, V D
 
Subject Crustacean Fisheries
Prawn and Prawn fisheries
 
Description 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.
 
Publisher Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Contributor Radhakrishnan, E V
Josileen, Jose
Pillai, S Lakshmi
 
Date 2011
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/9057/1/27-36_Handbook_of_Prawns.pdf
Deshmukh, V D (2011) Generic Characters of Metapenaeus Wood-Mason, 1891. In: Handbook of Prawns. Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, pp. 27-36.