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Penaeidae is a family of marine
crustacean Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group ...
s in the suborder
Dendrobranchiata Dendrobranchiata is a suborder of Decapoda, decapods, commonly known as prawns. There are 540 extant species in seven families, and a fossil record extending back to the Devonian. They differ from related animals, such as Caridea and Stenopodidea ...
, which are often referred to as penaeid shrimp or penaeid prawns. The Penaeidae contain many species of economic importance, such as the
tiger prawn ''Penaeus monodon'', commonly known as the giant tiger prawn, Asian tiger shrimp, black tiger shrimp, and other names, is a marine crustacean that is widely reared for food. Taxonomy ''Penaeus monodon'' was first described by Johan Christian ...
,
whiteleg shrimp Whiteleg shrimp (''Litopenaeus vannamei'', synonym ''Penaeus vannamei''), also known as Pacific white shrimp or King prawn, is a species of prawn of the eastern Pacific Ocean commonly caught or farmed for food. Description ''L. vannamei'' grows ...
, Atlantic white shrimp, and
Indian prawn The Indian prawn (''Fenneropenaeus indicus'', formerly ''Penaeus indicus''), is one of the major commercial prawn species of the world. It is found in the Indo-West Pacific from eastern and south-eastern Africa, through India, Malaysia and Indone ...
. Many prawns are the subject of commercial
fishery Fishery can mean either the enterprise of raising or harvesting fish and other aquatic life; or more commonly, the site where such enterprise takes place ( a.k.a. fishing ground). Commercial fisheries include wild fisheries and fish farms, both ...
, and
farming Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...
, both in marine settings, and in freshwater farms.
Lateral line The lateral line, also called the lateral line organ (LLO), is a system of sensory organs found in fish, used to detect movement, vibration, and pressure gradients in the surrounding water. The sensory ability is achieved via modified epithelial ...
–like sense organs on the antennae have been reported in some species of Penaeidae. At , the
myelin Myelin is a lipid-rich material that surrounds nerve cell axons (the nervous system's "wires") to insulate them and increase the rate at which electrical impulses (called action potentials) are passed along the axon. The myelinated axon can be ...
ated giant interneurons of pelagic penaeid shrimp have the world record for impulse conduction speed in any animal.


Genera

Of the 48 recognised genera in the family Penaeidae, 23 are known only from the
fossil record A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in ...
(marked †): * † '' Albertoppelia'' Schweigert & Garassino, 2004 * † ''
Ambilobeia ''Ambilobeia'' is an extinct genus of prawn which existed in Ambilobé, Madagascar during the Triassic The Triassic ( ) is a geologic period and system (stratigraphy), system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 2 ...
'' Garassino & Pasini, 2002 * † ''
Antrimpos ''Antrimpos'' is an extinct genus of crustacean which existed during the Triassic and Jurassic The Jurassic ( ) is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beg ...
'' Münster, 1839 * '' Artemesia'' Bate, 1888 * '' Atypopenaeus'' Alcock, 1905 * † '' Bombur'' Münster, 1839 * † ''
Bylgia ''Bylgia'' is an extinct genus of prawns in the family Penaeidae, containing 4 species. See also * List of prehistoric malacostracans This list of prehistoric malacostracans illustrates the genera from the fossil record that have ever been co ...
'' Münster, 1839 * † ''
Carinacaris ''Carinacaris'' is an extinct genus of penaeid shrimps in the family Penaeidae Penaeidae is a family of marine crustaceans in the suborder Dendrobranchiata, which are often referred to as penaeid shrimp or penaeid prawns. The Penaeidae contai ...
'' Garassino, 1994 * † ''
Cretapenaeus ''Cretapenaeus berberus'' is an extinct species of prawn which existed in Morocco during the Late Cretaceous period. It is the only species in the genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of ...
'' Garassino, Pasini & Dutheil, 2006 * † ''
Drobna ''Drobna deformis'' is an extinct species of prawn Prawn is a common name for small aquatic crustaceans with an exoskeleton and ten legs (which is a member of the order decapoda), some of which can be eaten. The term "prawn"Mortenson, Philip ...
'' Münster, 1839 * † ''
Dusa ''Dusa'' is an extinct genus of prawns, in the order Decapoda, containing five species. See also * Dusa (disambiguation) References Penaeidae Prehistoric crustacean genera {{paleo-crustacean-stub ...
'' Münster, 1839 * ''
Farfantepenaeus ''Farfantepenaeus'' is a genus of prawns in the family Penaeidae. Its eight species were formerly included in the genus ''Penaeus''. It was first published as a genus name in 1972 by Rudolf N. Burukovsky, but without the necessary designation o ...
'' Burukovsky, 1997 * '' Fenneropenaeus'' Pérez Farfante, 1969 * ''
Funchalia ''Funchalia'' is a genus of deep-water prawns of the family Penaeidae. Six species are currently recognised: *'' Funchalia danae'' Burkenroad, 1940 *'' Funchalia meridionalis'' (Lenz & Strunck, 1914) *'' Funchalia sagamiensis'' Fujino, 1975 *'' ...
'' Johnson, 1868 * † ''
Hakelocaris ''Hakelocaris vavassorii'' is an extinct species of prawn belonging to the family Penaeidae. It was named in 1994 by Alessandro Garassino, and is the only species in the genus ''Hakelocaris''. These prawns lived during the Cenomanian age. Fos ...
'' Garassino, 1994 * ''
Heteropenaeus ''Heteropenaeus'' is a monotypic genus of shrimps belonging to the family Penaeidae. Its only species is ''Heteropenaeus longimanus'', known by the common name longarm prawn.Davie,"Crustasea: Malacostraca", Zoological catalogue of Australia, vol. ...
'' De Man, 1896 * † ''
Ifasya ''Ifasya'' is an extinct genus of prawn. It contains the species ''Ifasya madagascariensis'' and ''Ifasya straelini'', and was named in 1995 by Alessandro Garassino and Giorgio Teruzzi. It existed in Madagascar during the Lower Triassic The Ea ...
'' Garassino & Teruzzi, 1995 * † ''
Koelga ''Koelga'' is an extinct genus of prawn in the order Decapoda The Decapoda or decapods (literally "ten-footed") are an order of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, including many familiar groups, such as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, s ...
'' Münster, 1839 * † '' Libanocaris'' Garassino, 1994 * ''
Litopenaeus ''Litopenaeus'' is a genus of prawns, formerly included in the genus ''Penaeus''. It contains five species: *'' Litopenaeus occidentalis'' (Streets, 1871) *'' Litopenaeus schmitti'' (Burkenroad, 1936) *'' Litopenaeus setiferus'' (Linnaeus, 1767) ...
'' Pérez Farfante, 1969 * † ''
Longichela ''Longichela orobica'' is an extinct species of prawn which lived in the Norian, and is the only species in the genus ''Longichela''. Distribution Fossils of this species were found only in the Triassic marine strata of Lombardy Lombardy ( it, ...
'' Garassino & Teruzzi, 1993 * † '' Longitergite'' Garassino & Teruzzi, 1996 * † ''
Macropenaeus ''Macropenaeus'' is an extinct genus of prawn in the order Decapoda, containing two species: the type species ''M. incertus'', known from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of Lebanon, and ''M. sidiaichensis'' known from the Early Cretaceous (Barr ...
'' Garassino, 1994 * '' Macropetasma'' Stebbing, 1914 * ''
Marsupenaeus ''Marsupenaeus'' is a monotypic genus of prawn. It contains a single species, ''Marsupenaeus japonicus'', known as the kuruma shrimp, kuruma prawn, or Japanese tiger prawn. It occurs naturally in bays and seas of the Indo-West Pacific, but has a ...
'' Tirmizi, 1971 * '' Megokris'' Pérez Farfante & Kensley, 1997 * ''
Melicertus ''Melicertus'' is a genus of "king" prawns, comprising eight species which were previously classified as members of the genus ''Penaeus'': *''Melicertus canaliculatus'' (Olivier, 1811) - witch prawn *''Melicertus hathor'' (Burkenroad, 1959) *'' ...
'' Rafinesque, 1814 * '' Metapenaeopsis'' Bouvier, 1905 * ''
Metapenaeus ''Metapenaeus'' is a genus of prawns, containing the following species: *'' Metapenaeus affinis'' (H. Milne-Edwards, 1837) *'' Metapenaeus alcocki'' M. J. George & Rao, 1968 *'' Metapenaeus anchistus'' (de Man, 1920) *'' Metapenaeus arabicus'' H ...
'' Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891 * † '' Microchela'' Garassino, 1994 * † '' Micropenaeus'' Bravi & Garassino, 1998 * '' Parapenaeopsis'' Alcock, 1901 * '' Parapenaeus'' Smith, 1885 * '' Pelagopenaeus'' Pérez Farfante & Kensley, 1997 * '' Penaeopsis'' Bate, 1881 * ''
Penaeus ''Penaeus'' is a genus of prawns, including the giant tiger prawn (''P. monodon''), the most important species of farmed crustacean worldwide. The genus has been reorganised following a proposition of Pérez Farfante and Kensley based on morph ...
'' Fabricius, 1798 * '' Protrachypene'' Burkenroad, 1934 * † '' Pseudobombur'' Secretan, 1975 * † '' Pseudodusa'' Schweigert & Garassino, 2004 * † ''
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'' Münster, 1839 * † '' Rhodanicaris'' Van Straelen, 1924 * '' Rimapenaeus'' Pérez Farfante & Kensley, 1997 * † ''
Satyrocaris ''Satyrocaris'' is an extinct genus of prawn in the family Penaeidae that existed during the Triassic in what is now Italy. It was described by Garassino and Teruzzi in 1993, and the type species is ''Satyrocaris cristatus''. References Extern ...
'' Garassino & Teruzzi, 1993 * '' Tanypenaeus'' Pérez Farfante, 1972 * '' Trachypenaeopsis'' Burkenroad, 1934 * '' Trachypenaeus'' Alcock, 1901 * '' Trachysalambria'' Burkenroad, 1934 * ''
Xiphopenaeus ''Xiphopenaeus'' is a genus of crustaceans in the suborder Dendrobranchiata, the shrimps and prawns. Two species are in this genus: *''Xiphopenaeus kroyeri'' *'' Xiphopenaeus riveti'' Likely, more species have not yet been described and named. ...
'' Smith, 1869


References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q683918 Dendrobranchiata Extant Triassic first appearances Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque Decapod families