Shrimp and prawn are important types of seafood that are consumed worldwide. Although shrimp and prawns belong to different suborders of Decapoda, they are very similar in appearance and the terms are often used interchangeably in commercial farming and wild fisheries.A distinction is drawn in recent aquaculture literature, which increasingly uses the term prawn only for the freshwater forms ...Taxonomy. Penaeus monodon was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1798. That name was overlooked for a long time, until 1949 when Lipke Holthuis clarified to which species it referred. Holthuis also showed that P. monodon had to be the type species of the genus Penaeus.. Description. Females can reach about 33 cm (13 in) long, but are typically 25–30 cm (10–12 in) long and ...
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