Speckled shrimp

Order Decapoda

Family Penaeidae

Marine crustacean consisting of a cephalothorax, abdomen and tail. Rostrum armed with 9 to 12 teeth along entire dorsal margin, straight, reaching as far as, or beyond, tip of antennular peduncle; a small ischial spine on first leg. Colour: body pink, green-greyish or whitish with brown specks; rostral and middorsal abdominal crests brown; antennae red; pereopods and pleopods of same colour as body, sometimes more intensely pink; distalpart of uropods purple-blue, external margin of exopods red. Maximum total length 195 mm.

Characteristics

FAO code
MPN

Specie
Metapenaeus monoceros

Type
Crustaceans

FAO Fishing Areas