SUPER FAMILY : PENAEOIDAE


No distict median tubercle on ocular peduncle

Upper antennular flagellum subequal to lower one, attached to apex of third antennular segment.

Family : Penaeidae

Body thick stony in appearance

Cervical groove very faint or absent

Abdomen with deep grooves and numerous tubercles

Third and fourth pair of pleopods single-branched

Post -orbital spine absent

Carapace with a median dendate crest extending nearly or quite to the posterior margin

Family : Sicyoniidae

Eyestalk with a tubercle on its mesial (inner) border

Carapace with postorbital spine, cervical groove long, extending to, or close to, dorsal midline of carapace

Endopods of second pair of pleopods in males bearing appendix masculina, appendix interna and lateral projection

Telson with a fixed spine on each side of tip

2 well developed arthrobranchs on each side of penultimate thoracic segment

The third pereopods are chelate

The pleurae of the second abdominal segment not overlapping those of first segment

Abdomen generally does not have a sharp bend

Last two pairs of walking legs well developed, gills many

Third pair of legs are normal and gills are dendrobranchiate

Post-orbital spine present

Family : Solenoceridae

 


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