Generic Characters of Penaeus, Fenneropenaeus, Melicertus, Marsupenaeus and Funchalia

Abstract

Rostrum armed with dorsal and ventral teeth; pleurobranchia on somite 14 glaborous (smooth) and polished; 3 short well-defined circatrices on sixth abdominal somite; adrostral sulcus and carina short falling distinctly short or extending to about level of epigastric tooth; gastrofrontal carina absent, hepatic carina prominent; thelycum closed, petasma with ventral costa long reaching distal margin of lateral lobe (Pérez Farfante, 1997)