Farfantepenaeus aztecus
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Farfantepenaeus aztecus is a species of marine penaeid shrimps found around the east coast of the USA and Mexico.[2] They are an important commercial species in the USA. The FAO refers to them as the northern brown shrimp; other common names, used in the USA, are brown shrimp, golden shrimp, red shrimp or redtail shrimp.[2][3]
Distribution
Farfantepenaeus aztecus are found along the USA Atlantic coast from Massachusetts to Texas, and along the Atlantic coast of Mexico from Tamaulipas to Campeche.[2] They live at depths of 4–160 metres (13–525 ft), with highest densities at 27–54 m (89–177 ft), on muddy, peat, sandy or clay bottoms, or amongst broken shells. Juveniles are found in marine or estuarine waters, while adults are marine.[2]
Description
Females reach a total length of 236 mm (9.3 in) and males 195 mm (7.7 in).[2]
Fishery
In the United States, 80,000,000 pounds (36,000 t) of F. aztecus were landed in 2010, more than half of which was from the state of Texas.[3]
Taxonomy
Farfantepenaeus aztecus was first described by J. E. Ives in an 1891 paper in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, as a variety of "Penæus brasiliensis" (now Farfantepenaeus brasiliensis).[5] The type locality was Veracruz, on the Mexico's Gulf coast .[5] He distinguished the new variety on the basis of the extreme lengths of the antennal flagellum, which is 7–10× longer than the length of the carapace.[5] "P. aztecus" was later treated as a full species, and when he erected the subgenus Farfantepenaeus, Rudolf Burukovsky included "P. aztecus" among the species included in that subgenus.[6] Farfantepenaeus was later raised to the rank of genus by Isabel Pérez Farfante and Brian Kensley, giving the species its current name of Farfantepenaeus aztecus.[7]
References
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Brown shrimp NOAA FishWatch. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
- ↑ Based on data sourced from the FishStat database, FAO.
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External links
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