Chinese white shrimp
Chinese white shrimp | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Crustacea |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Dendrobranchiata |
Family: | Penaeidae |
Genus: | Fenneropenaeus |
Species: | F. chinensis |
Binomial name | |
Fenneropenaeus chinensis (Osbeck, 1765) | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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The Chinese white shrimp, oriental shrimp, or fleshy prawn (Fenneropenaeus chinensis) is a species of shrimp. It is cultivated at an industrial level off mainland China. Production was devastated by a series of epidemics in the 1990s and early 2000s.[2] Its wild capture has since recovered and expanded, but it is now farmed at lower levels than previously.[1]
It was formerly known as Cancer chinensis, Penaeus chinensis and Penaeus orientalis,[1] but has been re-assigned to Fenneropenaeus.
References
- 1 2 3 Food and Agriculture Organization. Species Fact Sheets: Penaeus chinensis (Osbeck, 1765). 2014.
- ↑ "An Overview of China's Aquaculture", p. 6. Netherlands Business Support Office (Dalian), 2010. Accessed 13 Aug 2014.
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