Penaeus
Translingual
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek πέναιος (pénaios).
Proper noun
Penaeus m
- A taxonomic genus within the family Penaeidae – certain shrimps, most significantly the commercially important black tiger shrimp.
Usage notes
- Formerly included many species now placed in other genera in Penaeidae.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Crustacea – subphylum; Malacostraca – class; Eumalacostraca – subclass; Eucarida – superorder; Decapoda – order; Dendrobranchiata – suborder; Penaeoidea – superfamily; Penaeidae – family
Hyponyms
- (genus): Penaeus monodon (black tiger shrimp) – type species; Penaeus esculentus (brown tiger prawn), Penaeus semisulcatus (green tiger prawn) – other species
Derived terms
Derived terms
- Atypopenaeus
- Austropenaeus
- †Cretapenaeus
- Cryptopenaeus
- Farfantepenaeus
- Fenneropenaeus
- Hadropenaeus
- Hemipenaeus
- Heteropenaeus
- Hymenopenaeus
- Litopenaeus
- †Macropenaeus
- Marsupenaeus
- Mesopenaeus
- Metapenaeus
- †Micropenaeus
- Penaeopsis
- Parapenaeus
- Pelagopenaeus
- Plesiopenaeus
- Rimapenaeus
- Tanypenaeus
- Trachypenaeus
- †Tzeltalpenaeus
- Xiphopenaeus
- †Zoquepenaeus
References
- Penaeus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Penaeus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Penaeus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Penaeus at World Register of Marine Species
- Penaeus at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Penaeus at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Penaeus at Paleobiology Database