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Scientific Name: Acetes japonicus Kishinouye, 1905
English Name: Akiami paste shrimp
Local/Bangla Name: Layla icha (লইল্যা ইচা) Gura icha (গুড়া চিংড়ি), Banguri chingri (বাংগুড়ি চিংড়ি)
Akiami paste shrimp - Layla icha (লইল্যা ইচা) Gura icha (গুড়া চিংড়ি), Banguri chingri (বাংগুড়ি চিংড়ি) - Acetes japonicus - Type: Shrimp

Photo: Mostafa A R Hossain,2015 (IUCN Bangladesh)

Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Sergestidae
Description:
It has a transparent body with a very short rostrum. The telson of the female shrimp is rounded or truncated at the apex. Third thoracic sternite is produced posteriorly (extended backwards). The genital coxa is rounded at the anterior margin in males.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
Chittagong, Khulna, Patuakhali, Estuary of the Sundarbans and the Bay of Bengal.
Environment:
Marine
Main References:

Ahmed ATA, Kabir SMH, Ahmad M, Rahman AKA, Haque EU, Ahmed ZU, Begum ZNT, Hassan MA, Khondker M (Eds.) (2008) Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol. 18. Part II. Arthropoda: Crustacea. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka, 226 pp

Other References:

Holthuis LB (1980) FAO species catalogue. Shrimps and prawns of the world. An annotated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries, FAO Fish. Synop. 125(1): 271Pp.

Carpenter KE, Niem VH (eds) (1998) FAOs species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Volume 2. Cephalopods, crustaceans, holothurians and sharks, Rome,FAO 1998, 687-1396 Pp

Vereshchaka A, Lunina A, Olesen J (2016) Phylogeny and classification of the shrimp genera Acetes, Peisos, and Sicyonella (Sergestidae: Crustacea: Decapoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 176.

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