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On a new species of Penaeid prawn of the genus Metapenaeus Wood Mason and Alcock, from the Andamans

Year: 1974

Type: article

Abstract: A new species of Metapenaeus Wood Mason and Alcock closely related to M. suluemis Racek and Dall, from which it differs in having distinctly different thelycum and petasma, \nis described from Port Blair, Andamans. The diagnostic characters are: distomedian lobes of petasma broadly triangular with apices barely projecting beyond anterior margin of distolateral projections ; anterior plate of thelycum tongue-like with raised parallel lateral margins, lateral plates of Uielycum flat, bounded posteriorly by two transverse protuberances bearing tufts of setae.

Source: Eprints@CMFRI Open Access Institutional Repository (Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute)

Authors: E G Silas, M S Muthu

Language: English

Topic: Crustacean biology and ecology

Subfield: Ecology

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W373334059

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Cites: 1

Cited by: 5

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