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Penaeus pulchricaudatus

Stebbing, 1914

The encyclopedia holds no English common name for this taxon.

Penaeus pulchricaudatus, specimen MNHN-IU-2011-5734 (Fort-Dauphin area, Madagascar, bought from local fishermen). The Wikimedia Commons file still carries the older name Marsupenaeus japonicus, while the museum now records it as Penaeus pulchricaudatus, determined by T. Y. Chan. A preserved specimen of the National Museum of Natural History, Paris (MNHN), so its colours are not those of the living animal. The photograph is not evidence of occurrence in Saudi waters.
Penaeus pulchricaudatus, specimen MNHN-IU-2011-5734 (Fort-Dauphin area, Madagascar, bought from local fishermen). The Wikimedia Commons file still carries the older name Marsupenaeus japonicus, while the museum now records it as Penaeus pulchricaudatus, determined by T. Y. Chan. A preserved specimen of the National Museum of Natural History, Paris (MNHN), so its colours are not those of the living animal. The photograph is not evidence of occurrence in Saudi waters. © Chan T. Y. & Lin C. W.; MNHN Paris, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0

Species PENAEIDAE Shrimp accepted scientific name

Quick facts

Saudi context in this record

Occurrence records

The encyclopedia holds no published occurrence record for this taxon in Saudi waters yet.

No local name is recorded for it in a Saudi scope either.

Measurements and characters

Catch per unit effort Saudi territorial waters, Red Sea

0.049 kg/h

Mean catch per unit effort (kg per hour of towing) in the Saudi Red Sea shrimp trawl fishery, commercial trawler operations of May–June 2023 off Al Qunfudhah and Jizan; minimum, maximum and standard error in metadata. The paper does not describe how the species were identified.

Toward Sustainable Fisheries: Assessing Catch per Unit Effort, Retained Bycatch, and Discard Ratios in the Red Sea Shrimp Trawl Fishery of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Section 3 (Results), Table 1; Section 2.2 (Data Collection) confidence: scientifically documented verification: verified

Study sample count Saudi territorial waters, Red Sea

3274

3,274 individuals of this species among the 103,758 shrimp (six species) counted in one trawl-catch study sample, counted by number. Sampled monthly from October 2022 to September 2023 off the ports of Jizan and Al Qunfudhah (108 hauls off each), by chartered industrial shrimp trawlers registered in the two ports; the catch was sorted on board and taken on ice to the laboratory. Gear: 40 mm diamond-mesh codend, night trawling, hauls of about three hours at around three knots, at depths of 10 to 40 m off Jizan and 10 to 30 m off Al Qunfudhah. The trawling grounds are predominantly sandy bottoms with scattered muddy patches (a description of the study grounds, given as context and not as a fact about the species). This value is a figure of that one sample: it is not population abundance, Saudi abundance, stock abundance, national prevalence, distribution, production or commercial importance.

Linking Biological Parameters to Fishery Management: Stock Assessment of Green Tiger Prawn, Penaeus semisulcatus De Haan, 1844 Along the Red Sea Coast of Saudi Arabia Results 3.1 (species composition, n = 103,758 individuals, shares by number) confidence: scientifically documented verification: verified

Share of the study sample Saudi territorial waters, Red Sea

3 %

3% of the 103,758 shrimp (six species) counted in one trawl-catch study sample, by number of individuals. Sampled monthly from October 2022 to September 2023 off the ports of Jizan and Al Qunfudhah (108 hauls off each), by chartered industrial shrimp trawlers registered in the two ports; the catch was sorted on board and taken on ice to the laboratory. Gear: 40 mm diamond-mesh codend, night trawling, hauls of about three hours at around three knots, at depths of 10 to 40 m off Jizan and 10 to 30 m off Al Qunfudhah. The trawling grounds are predominantly sandy bottoms with scattered muddy patches (a description of the study grounds, given as context and not as a fact about the species). This value is a figure of that one sample: it is not population abundance, Saudi abundance, stock abundance, national prevalence, distribution, production or commercial importance.

Linking Biological Parameters to Fishery Management: Stock Assessment of Green Tiger Prawn, Penaeus semisulcatus De Haan, 1844 Along the Red Sea Coast of Saudi Arabia Results 3.1 (species composition, n = 103,758 individuals, shares by number) confidence: scientifically documented verification: verified

Names

The encyclopedia holds no common names for this taxon.

Classification

PenaeusGenus PENAEIDAEFamily DecapodaOrder MalacostracaClass ArthropodaPhylum AnimaliaKingdom

External identifiers
  • WoRMS AphiaID: 584983 — World Register of Marine Species
  • WoRMS AphiaID: 1809215 — World Register of Marine Species

Conservation

No governed conservation assessment is published for this taxon. The absence of a published assessment is not an assessment of low concern.

Distribution

The encyclopedia holds no published scientific distribution records for this taxon. The distribution statements among the facts above are quoted from the sources cited beside them; they are not distribution records.

This section shows source-backed scientific distribution only. Community observations are not listed here and no scientific distribution is inferred from them.

Fishing and seasons

The shrimp fishing seasons and bans published in the encyclopedia belong to the fishery (wild-caught marine shrimp on a given coast in a given year); they are not a biological property of this species and not its spawning season. Find them with their area, year and source on the shrimp page. The season tables →

Others in this family

Taxa of the same family. That is a taxonomic relationship, not a statement of resemblance; the encyclopedia holds no diagnostic characters or lookalike relations yet.

Information not yet documented in this record

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Scientific sources

Linking Biological Parameters to Fishery Management: Stock Assessment of Green Tiger Prawn, Penaeus semisulcatus De Haan, 1844 Along the Red Sea Coast of Saudi Arabia (2025). DOI 10.3390/biology15010008
World Register of Marine Species (2026). DOI 10.14284/170
Toward Sustainable Fisheries: Assessing Catch per Unit Effort, Retained Bycatch, and Discard Ratios in the Red Sea Shrimp Trawl Fishery of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2024). DOI 10.3390/su162310285
The scientific sources above are the ones cited for the facts, names and identifiers on this page. The platform and founder attribution in the footer is not a scientific source. Community contributions appear with their names and review status. The verification shown beside a value means the register checked the value against its cited source; it is not a scientific approval and not an independent peer review.

Record last modified: 2026-10-16

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