Metapenaeus monoceros: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Penaeidae
- Genus
- Metapenaeus
- Species
- Metapenaeus monoceros
- Scientific Name
- Metapenaeus monoceros
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Metapenaeus monoceros
Metapenaeus monoceros is a species of prawn in the family Penaeidae. It is also known as speckled shrimp, brown shrimp and pink shrimp in English, crevette mouchetée in French, camarón moteado in Spanish, koraney chingri or honye chingri in India, ginger prawn in South Africa and choodan chemmeen in Malayalam.
...Metapenaeus monoceros in languages:
- English
- Speckled shrimp
- English
- Brown Prawn
- French
- Crevette mouchetée
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Metapenaeus affinis
- Metapenaeus alcocki
- Metapenaeus bennettae
- Metapenaeus brevicornis
- Metapenaeus conjunctus
- Metapenaeus dalli
- Metapenaeus demani
- Metapenaeus dobsoni
- Metapenaeus eboracensis
- Metapenaeus elegans
- Metapenaeus endeavouri
- Metapenaeus ensis
- Metapenaeus insolitus
- Metapenaeus intermedius
- Metapenaeus joyneri
- Metapenaeus krishnatrii
- Metapenaeus kutchensis
- Metapenaeus lysianassa
- Metapenaeus macleayi
- Metapenaeus monoceros
- Metapenaeus motohi
- Metapenaeus moyebi
- Metapenaeus papuensis
- Metapenaeus stebbingi
- Metapenaeus tenuipes