Species list, Checklist of Family Penaeidae (Penaeid shrimps) for Thursday Island (Torres Strait Islands, Australia)

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Bees	Beetles
Booklice	Bugs
Bumblebees	Butterflies
Cicadas	Crane flies
Dragonflies	Earwigs
Flies	Isopods
Locusts	Mantises
Mayflies	Mosquitoes
Myriapods	Net-winged
Plant-parasitic	Scorpion flies
Termites	Wasps

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Checklist for Family Penaeidae Rafinesque, 1815 (Penaeid shrimps)
and region Thursday Island (Torres Strait Islands, Australia)

Class	Malacostraca Latreille, 1802 Higher Crustaceans, Malacostracans	43 86 128	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892	43 86 128	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Eucarida Calman, 1904	27 64 98	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Decapoda Latreille, 1802 Crabs, Crayfishes, Decapod, Decapods, Lobsters, Prawns	27 64 98	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Dendrobranchiata Bate, 1888	2 5 9	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Penaeoidea Rafinesque, 1815 Penaeoid shrimps	2 5 9	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Family	Penaeidae Rafinesque, 1815 Penaeid shrimps	4 7	Genera Species	Taxom

Genera for Thursday Island
4 Genera with 7 Species

Melicertus Rafinesque, 1943		1	Species	Taxom
Metapenaeopsis Bouvier, 1879	Velvet shrimps	2	Species	Taxom
Metapenaeus Wood-Mason &..., 1965	metapenaeus shrimps	1	Species	Taxom
Penaeus Fabricius, 1852		3	Species	Taxom

Species list for Thursday Island
7 Species

Melicertus longistylus Kubo, 1943	Red-spotted Prawn
Metapenaeopsis novaeguineae Haswell, 1879	New Guinea Prawn
Metapenaeopsis palmensis Haswell, 1879	Southern Velvet Prawn
Metapenaeus bennettae Racek & Dall, 1965	Bay Prawn
Penaeus (Penaeus) latisculcatus
Penaeus granulosus (Haswell, 1879)	⇒ Megokris granulosus Haswell, 1879
Penaeus velutinus (Dana, 1852)	⇒ Metapenaeopsis velutina Dana, 1852

Links, sources and further information

Penaeidae at artfakta.se
Penaeidae at biodiversity.org.au
Penaeidae at gbif.org
Penaeidae at irmng.org
Penaeidae at itis.gov
Penaeidae at marinespecies.org