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Penaeus monodon   Fabricius, 1798

Giant tiger prawn

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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India country information

Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
Abundance: | Ref:
Importance: commercial | Ref: Kurian, C.V. and V.O. Sebastian, 1976
Aquaculture: never/rarely | Ref:
Regulations: no regulations | Ref:
Uses: no uses
Comments: Known to be more common in east coast than in the west coast of the country (Ref. 180). It is commercially important especially on the east coast (Bengal and Orissa) (Ref. 104). C: Refs. 8, 75620, 180, 104, 116140, 121483.
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html
National Fisheries Authority:
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Maheswarudu, G., G. Sudhakara Rao, M. Rajamani, V. Thangaraj Subramanian, K.R. Manmadhan Nair, K.N. Saleela, E. Dhanwanthari, M. Paul and A.K. Unnithan, 2014
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Bagada, ... more

Classification / Names / Names Tên thường gặp | Các synonym ( Các tên trùng) | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS

> Decapoda (Lobster, shrimp and crabs) > Penaeidae (penaeid shrimps)

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Sinh thái học

; Thuộc về nước lợ; Mức độ sâu 0 - 150 m (Ref. 10), usually ? - 60 m (Ref. 10).   Tropical; 17°C - 38°C (Ref. 72772), preferred 24°C (Ref. 107945); 36°N - 33°S, 55°E - 154°E

Sự phân bố Các nước | Các khu vực của FAO | Các hệ sinh thái | Những lần xuất hiện | Những chỉ dẫn

Indo-Pacific: From Pakistan to Japan, the Malay Archipelago and Australia. Introduced in the Atlantic Ocean (Africa and USA). Tropical to temperate.

Length at first maturity / Bộ gần gũi / Khối lượng (Trọng lượng) / Age

Maturity: Lm ?, range 4 - 4.22 cm Max length : 33.6 cm TL con đực/không giới tính; (Ref. 8); 35 cm TL (female); Khối lượng cực đại được công bố: 250.00 g (Ref. 116487)

Short description Hình thái học

Uniformly glabrous body; carapace with well-developed antennal and hepatic spines. Horizontal and straight hepatic carina. Rostrum armed with 7 or 8 dorsal and 3 ventral teeth. Color: body is reddish with darker bands. Brown to blue pleopods and reddish fringing setae.

Sinh học     Tự điển (thí dụ epibenthic)

Caught by pond fishing and inshore fishing. Considered a delicacy in the Philippines that in 1980, retail price was Php60 to 80 (US$8.6 to 11.5)/kg in Manila and Php50 to 70 in local areas (Ref. 10). Maximum total length (female) from Ref. 104052.

Life cycle and mating behavior Chín muồi sinh dục | Sự tái sinh sản | Đẻ trứng | Các trứng | Sự sinh sản | Ấu trùng

Members of the order Decapoda are mostly gonochoric. Mating behavior: Precopulatory courtship ritual is common (through olfactory and tactile cues); usually indirect sperm transfer.

Main reference Các tài liệu tham khảo | Người điều phối | Người cộng tác

Holthuis, L.B. 1980. (Ref. 8)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Human uses

Các nghề cá: Tính thương mại
FAO - Nuôi trồng thủy sản: Sản xuất, species profile; Các nghề cá: landings, species profile | FishSource | Biển chung quanh ta

Các công cụ

E-book | Hướng dẫn hiện trường

Các nguồn internet

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Nuôi trồng thủy sản: species profile; Các nghề cá: species profile; publication : search) | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Cây Đời sống | Wikipedia (Go, tìm) | Tạp chí Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 24.7 - 29.1, mean 28.1 (based on 1984 cells).
Thích nghi nhanh (Ref. 69278) Chiêù cao, thời gian nhân đôi của chủng quần tối thiểu là dưới 15 tháng (K=0.94-1.7).
Prior r = 1.19, 95% CL = 0.79 - 1.79, Based on 4 data-limited stock assessments.
Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Low vulnerability (19 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Very high.