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Macrobrachium rosenbergii, also known as the giant river prawn or giant freshwater prawn, is a commercially important species of palaemonid freshwater prawn. It is found throughout the tropical and subtropical areas of the Indo-Pacific region, from India to Southeast Asia and Northern Australia . [ 3 ]
From the mysis stage they are also fed with artemia nauplii and egg-prawn-custard mix. Post larval rearing can be continued in the same tank and post-larvae (PL) are fed with minced mussel meat, mantis shrimp powder or variety of other fresh feeds of particle size 200–1000 μm till they reach PL-20 (day 20 of post-larva).
William Aitcheson Haswell arrived in Australia in 1878, and began working in a marine zoology laboratory at Watsons Bay.In 1879, he described Penaeus esculentus in a paper in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, basing his description on material in the Macleay Museum which had come from Port Jackson and Port Darwin, and noting that P. esculentus is "the common edible ...
Metapenaeus bennettae is a species of small prawn found in eastern Australia, where it is called the greentail or greasyback prawn. The prawns are covered in fine hairs, giving them a slippery feel when handled. [1] They are collected commercially and recreationally for food and form part of the catches known as bay prawns and school prawns.
Eastern king prawns are marketed in eastern Australia as "king prawns" without qualification. In southeast Queensland, they may also be called Mooloolabah prawns. [1]The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization uses French and Spanish names that are direct translations of "eastern royal prawn": Crevette royale orientale, Camarón real oriental.
Penaeus latisulcatus Kishinouye, 1896; Western king prawn; (Tropical Australia south to Gulf St Vincent, South Australia, and to Ballina, New South Wales. Also widespread in the Indo-West Pacific region.) [1] Penaeus plebejus Hess, 1865; Eastern king prawn; (Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, to North Reef, Queensland, and south to Georges Bay ...
Macrobrachium is a genus of freshwater prawns or shrimps characterised by the extreme enlargement of the second pair of pereiopods, at least in the male. [2] Species
Penaeus monodon, commonly known as the giant tiger prawn, [1] [2] Asian tiger shrimp, [3] [4] black tiger shrimp, [5] [6] and other names, is a marine crustacean that is widely reared for food. Tiger prawns displayed in a supermarket