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

Metapenaeus affinis (H. Milne Edwards, 1837 [in Milne Edwards, 1834-1840])

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Metapenaeus*	Wood-Mason in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891a	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: Jinga shrimp

Literature

basis of record	Fischer, W. & G. Bianchi (Eds.) (1984). FAO Species identification sheets For Fisheries Purposes: Western Indian Ocean. FAO, Rome.
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	Pérez Farfante, I. & B. Kensley, 1997. Penaeoid and sergestoid shrimps and prawns of the world. Keys and diagnoses for the families and genera.— Mémoires du Muséum National d’Histoire naturelle 175: 1-233.
additional source	Kubo, I., 1954. Systematic studies on the Japanese macrurous decapod Crustacea. 2. On two penaeids, Metapenaeus affinis (H. Milne Edwards) and M. burkenroadi, nom. nov., erected on the Japanese form known as M. affinis.— Journal of the Tokyo University of Fisheries 41: 89-93.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

GenBank (16 nucleotides; 10 proteins)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Shrimp Collection
Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
GBIF

Citation

De Grave, S. (2014). Metapenaeus affinis (H. Milne Edwards, 1837 [in Milne Edwards, 1834-1840]). 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:210397