Parapenaeus longipes

 
 
 
  • Branchiostegal spine absent
  • No trace of hepatic crest
  • Longitudinal and transverse sutures present
  • Fifth pereopod exceeding antennal scale by length of dactyl
  • Petasma with distolateral lobes spout-like and as long as distomedian ones
  • In females, anterior plate of thelycum semicircular, articulating to intermediate plate and with  a median groove which continues on intermediate plate
  • The latter is broad, quadrate and continuous to posterior sternal plate


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