Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Dendrobranchiata > Superfamily Penaeoidea > Family Penaeidae

Metapenaeus Wood-Mason in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891a

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Metapenaeus affinis (H. Milne Edwards, 1837 [in Milne Edwards, 1834-1840])
Metapenaeus monoceros (Fabricius, 1798)
Metapenaeus stebbingi Nobili, 1904

Literature

original description	Wood-Mason, J.; Alcock, A. (1891). Natural history notes from H.M. Indian marine survey steamer 'Investigator', Commander R.F. Hoskyn, R.N., commanding. Series II, No. 1. On the results of deep-sea dredging during the season 1890-1891 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. VIII, Sixth series(XLVI): 268-286
basis of record	Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292
additional source	Barnard, K.H., 1950. Descriptive catalogue of South African decapod Crustacea (crabs and shrimps).— Annals of the South African Museum 38: 1-837.
additional source	De Grave, S. & C.H.J.M. Fransen. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zool. Med. Leiden 85(9): 30.ix.2011: 195-589 figs 1-59.
additional source	Nomenclator Zoologicus

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Citation

De Grave, S. (2014). Metapenaeus Wood-Mason in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891a. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106818