MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Melicertus kerathurus (Forskål, 1775)

WoRMS name details

Melicertus kerathurus (Forskål, 1775)

AphiaID

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

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination

Accepted Name

Penaeus kerathurus (Forskål, 1775)

Rank

Species

Parent

Melicertus Rafinesque, 1814 accepted as Penaeus Fabricius, 1798

Original name

Cancer kerathurus Forskål, 1775

Synonymised names

Ephyra punctulatus (Risso, 1822) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Penaeus caramote (Risso, 1816) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Environment

marine, brackish, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Cancer kerathurus Forskål, 1775) 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]

Taxonomic citation

DecaNet eds. (2024). DecaNet. Melicertus kerathurus (Forskål, 1775). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=107104 on 2024-11-21

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

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

Licensing

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[taxonomic tree]

original description (of Cancer kerathurus Forskål, 1775) 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]

basis of record Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 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. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire naturelle. 175: 1-233. [details] Available for editors

[request]

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). Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden. 85(9): 195-589. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Language	Name
Catalan	llagostí	[details]
English	triplegrooved shrimptiger shrimpstriped shrimpprawncamarote prawn	[details]
French	gros ligubamcrevette tigrèecrevette royalecrevette du Maroccamarote	[details]
German	rote FurchenkrebseKrabbeFurchenkrebsefurchengarnele	[details]
Italian	spannocchiomazzancollagambero imperiale	[details]
Japanese	kurumaebi-zoku	[details]
Modern Greek (1453-)	Μαύρη γαρίδα	[details]
Portuguese	gamba-manchadacamarao-de-Quarteiracamarao-de-praiacamarao	[details]
Russian	tigrovaya krevetka	[details]
Spanish	langostino tigre	[details]
Wolof	sipakh	[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 PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (45 records)
To ITIS

Unreviewed

To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ Melicertus kerathurus)

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