Tags: Crustacean.

Metapenaeus monoceros is a species of prawn in the family Penaeidae. It is also known as speckled shrimp brown shrimp and pink shrimp in English crevette mouchetée in French camarón moteado in Spanish koraney chingri or honye chingri in India ginger prawn in South Africa and choodan chemmeen in Malayalam.

binomial authority
Johan Christian Fabricius
class
Malacostraca
family
Penaeidae
genus
Metapenaeus
kingdom
Animal
order
Decapoda
phylum
Arthropod, Crustacean
synonym
*Metapenaeus cognatus (Nobili 1904), *Metapenaeus deschampsi (Nobili 1903), *Penaeopsis monoceros (Fabricius 1798), *Penaeopsis spinulicauda (Stebbing 1914), *Penaeus monoceros (Fabricius 1798)

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