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ON THE IDENTIFICATION OF THREE MORPHOSPECIES OF PRAWNS - PENAEUS MERGUIENSIS DE MAN, PENAEUS INDICUS H. MILNE EDWARDS AND PENAEUS PENICILLATUS ALCOCK (DECAPODA, PENAEIDEA) BY V. C. CHONG and A. SASEKUMAR Department of Zoology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 22-11, Malaysia INTRODUCTION The White Prawns Penaeus merguiensis De Man, P. indicus H. Milne Edwards and P. penicillatus Alcock are three very similar species. Hall (1956) com- mented : "although adults demonstrating the features typical of the respective species may be identified fairly easily, there are many cases in which features of all three species may be exhibited by a single individual". Indeed, De Man (1888) was not sure himself when he first separated P. merguiensis from P. indicus, later reuniting it (De Man, 1892), and subsequently considered it as a separate species (De Man, 1911) with the following statement: "...their outer appearance is so greatly different, especially as regards the shape of the rostrum that everyone will consider them as different species" (cited in Hall, 1956). Observations by other authors (Kubo, 1949; Dall, 1957) indicate that not all the characters described for one particular species are necessarily species-specific, and that even the same species, from different localities, has
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Published: Jan 1, 1982
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