MSBIAS name details

Melicertus kerathurus (Forskål, 1775)

107104 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107104)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia
  3. Arthropoda
  4. Crustacea
  5. Multicrustacea
  6. Malacostraca
  7. Eumalacostraca
  8. Eucarida
  9. Decapoda
  10. Dendrobranchiata
  11. Penaeoidea
  12. Penaeidae
  13. Melicertus
  14. Melicertus kerathurus
 unaccepted > superseded combination
Penaeus kerathurus (Forskål, 1775) accepted as Penaeus (Melicertus) kerathurus (Forskål, 1775)
Species
Melicertus Rafinesque, 1814 accepted as Penaeus (Melicertus) Rafinesque, 1814
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of ) Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2088059 [details] OpenAccess publication
DecaNet eds. (2026). DecaNet. Melicertus kerathurus (Forskål, 1775). Accessed through: The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2026) Marine Species of Britain, Ireland and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=107104 on 2026-08-07
The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2026). Marine Species of Britain, Ireland and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications. Melicertus kerathurus (Forskål, 1775). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/Msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=107104 on 2026-08-07
Date
action
by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
Türkay, Michael
2007-06-04 11:36:54Z
checked
Fransen, Charles
2014-05-27 07:24:28Z
changed
Fransen, Charles
2022-08-27 15:22:26Z
changed
De Grave, Sammy

original description (of ) Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2088059 [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 284-292 (look up in IMIS) [details] 

additional source Pérez Farfante, I.; Kensley, B. (1997). Penaeoid and sergestoid shrimps and prawns of the world. Keys and diagnoses for the families and genera. <em>Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire naturelle.</em> 175: 1-233. [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source De Grave, S.; Fransen, C.H.J.M. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). <em>Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden.</em> 85(9): 195-589. (look up in IMIS) [details] OpenAccess publication
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
LanguageName 
English triplegrooved shrimptiger shrimpstriped shrimpprawncamarote prawn  [details]
To Barcode of Life (98 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) 
To GenBank (258 nucleotides; 189 proteins) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ Melicertus kerathurus) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ Melicertus kerathurus) 
To PESI 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (45 records) 
To ITIS
Unreviewed