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Scientific Name: Penaeus monodon Fabricius, 1798
English Name: Asian tiger shrimp
Local/Bangla Name: Not Known
Asian tiger shrimp - Not Known - Penaeus monodon - Type: Zooplankton

Photo: Kannan et al.(2014)

Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Penaeidae
Description:
Giant tiger prawns have a typical prawn body structure, including a head, tail, five pairs of swimming legs (pleopods), five pairs of walking legs (pereopods), and several head appendages. They feature a hard exoskeleton (carapace) enclosing their cephalothorax. Their heads include a rostrum, dorsal teeth (six to eight), and ventral teeth (two to four), along with an adrostral carina extending from the rostrum to the epigastric spine. The first three pairs of pereopods have claws, and they lack an exopod on their fifth pleopods. Their telson lacks spines.Giant tiger prawns are recognized by distinctive black and white stripes on their backs and tails, with alternating black/yellow or blue/yellow stripes on their abdomens. Their body color can vary from green, brown, red, grey, or blue. These prawns can grow very large, reaching lengths of 330 mm or more, and they exhibit sexual dimorphism, with females being larger than males. Females have a sperm receptacle on the last thoracic segment, paired internal fused ovaries, and reach carapace lengths of 47-164 mm. Males have a copulatory organ called a petasma, and the presence of an appendix masculina distinguishes them from females. Males have unpigmented/translucent testes dorsal to the hepatopancreas. Sperm are released through genital pores on the fifth pereopod.
Environment:
Marine,Brackish water
Comments:
Larval Stage of Shrimp
Main References:

Al MA, Akhtar A, Rahman MF, AftabUddin S, Modeo L (2020) Temporal distribution of zooplankton communities in coastal waters of the northern Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 34, 100993.

Other References:

Khan MS, Uddin SA, Haque MA (2015) Abundance and composition of zooplankton at Sitakunda coast of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Research in Agriculture Livestock and Fisheries, 2(1), 151-160.

Abdullah Al M, Alam MD, Akhtar A, Xu H, Islam MS, Mustafa Kamal AH, Alam MW (2018) Annual pattern of zooplankton communities and their environmental response in a subtropical maritime channel system in the northern Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 37, 65-73.

Majumdar BC, Kabir IE, Sheikh AH, Mukul MN, Shovon MN(2023) Species Composition, Diversity and Abundance of the Zooplankton Population at Southern Estuary of Bangladesh. Diversity and Abundance of the Zooplankton Population at Southern Estuary of Bangladesh.

Kannan D, Jagadeesan K, Shettu N, Thirunavukkarasu P (1 july 2014)Maturation and spawning of commercially important penaeid shrimp Penaeus monodon Fabricus at Pazhayar Tamil Nadu (South East Coast of India). Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science, 9(4):170.

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