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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