Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Dendrobranchiata > Superfamily Penaeoidea

Penaeidae Rafinesque, 1815

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Funchalia Johnson, 1868
Marsupenaeus Tirmizi, 1971a
Melicertus Rafinesque, 1814
Metapenaeopsis Bouvier, 1905b
Metapenaeus Wood-Mason in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891a
Parapenaeus Smith, 1885b
Pelagopenaeus Pérez Farfante & Kensley, 1997
Penaeopsis Spence Bate, 1881
Penaeus Fabricius, 1798
Trachysalambria Burkenroad, 1934a

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: penaeid shrimps

Literature

original description	Rafinesque C.S. [-Schmaltz] (1815). Analyse de la Nature ou Tableau de l'univers et des corps organisés: 1-224. Palerme.
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
additional source	De Grave, S. & C.H.J.M. Fransen. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zool. Med. Leiden 85(9): 30.ix.2011: 195-589 figs 1-59.
additional source	d'Udekem d'Acoz, C. (1999). Inventaire et distribution des crustacés décapodes de l'Atlantique nord-oriental, de la Méditerranée et des eaux continentales adjacentes au nord de 25°N [Inventory and distribution of the decapod crustaceans from the northeastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the adjacent continental waters north of 25°N]. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 40. Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle: Paris, France. ISBN 2-86515-114-10. X, 383 pp.
additional source	Martin, J.W.; Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA). vii, 123 pp.

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Citation

WoRMS (2014). Penaeidae. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106727