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tiger prawn
(redirected from Penaeus monodon)

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tiger prawn
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(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a large edible prawn of the genus Penaeus with dark bands across the body, fished commercially in the Indian and Pacific oceans


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In laboratory experiments, Penaeus monodon was capable of capturing and consuming live zooplankton, but again it was not distinguished whether the shrimp were capturing zooplankton out of the water column or picking them off the bottom of the experimental chamber (Chen & Chen 1992).
1970), the white shrimp Penaeus setiferus (Gates and Travis, 1969), the tiger prawn Penaeus monodon (Pei-Jung, Hsien-Ching, and Inn-Ho, 1990), and Peneaus japonicus (Galgani et al.
 
 
 
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