Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Giant Gamba Prawn, Giant Red Shrimp, Red Royal Prawn
Common Names in French:
Crevette Rouge, Gambaru De Fundu, Gambon Rouge, Grande Crevette Rouge
Common Names in Italian:
Ammiru Cani, Ammiru Turcu, Gambero Rosso, U Patri Di Ammiru
Common Names in Spanish:
Chorizo, Gamba Espa, Gamba Roja, Langostino Moru, Langostino Rojo
Description
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Habitat
Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -3,735 meters (0 to -12,254 feet).[1]
Biome: Marine .
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Protostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
()
- A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
()
- Cuvier
- Phylum:
Arthropoda
()
- Latreille, 1829
- Arthropods
- Subphylum:
Mandibulata
()
- Snodgrass, 1938
- Infraphylum:
Crustaceomorpha
()
- (Chernyshev, 1960)
- Superclass:
Crustacea
()
- Pennant, 1777
- Crustaceans
- Epiclass:
Eucrustacea
()
- Subclass:
Eumalacostraca
()
- Grobben, 1892
- Superorder:
Eucarida
()
- Calman, 1904
- Order:
Decapoda
()
- Latreille, 1802
- Decapods
- Suborder:
Dendrobranchiata
()
- Bate, 1888
- Prawns
- Superfamily:
Penaeoidea
()
- Rafinesque, 1815
- Family:
Aristeidae
()
- Wood-Mason, 1891
- Genus:
Aristaeomorpha
()
- Specific name:
foliacea
- (Risso, 1827)
- Scientific name: - Aristaeomorpha foliacea (Risso, 1827)
- Specific name:
foliacea
- (Risso, 1827)
- Genus:
Aristaeomorpha
(
- Family:
Aristeidae
(
- Superfamily:
Penaeoidea
(
- Suborder:
Dendrobranchiata
(
- Order:
Decapoda
(
- Superorder:
Eucarida
(
- Subclass:
Eumalacostraca
(
- Epiclass:
Eucrustacea
(
- Superclass:
Crustacea
(
- Infraphylum:
Crustaceomorpha
(
- Subphylum:
Mandibulata
(
- Phylum:
Arthropoda
(
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
(
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Aristeus rostridentatus Bate • Peneus foliaceus Risso
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 10-Aug-2005
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Aristaeomorpha
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 2 species and subspecies in this genus:
A. foliacea (Giant Gamba Prawn) · A. woodmasoni (Indian Red Shrimp)
More Info
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Further Reading
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- Commercial fisheries review. [Washington]: National Marine Fisheries Service; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.] url p. 12, p. 13, p. 13, p. 21.
- Madagascar: an environmental profile IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre url p. 103.
- Records of the Indian Museum. Calcutta: Pub. by order of the trustees of the Indian Museum, . 1907-1962. url , p. 19.
- Records of the Indian museum: Crustacea Decapoda reprints, 1910-1925. A collection of papers on crustacea from the Records of the Indian museum. Calcutta, [Pub. by order of the Trustees of the Indian Museum], 1910-25. url , p. 19.
- The Canadian field-naturalist. Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url p. 528, p. 732.
Notes
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Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/Taxonomicon/]. Access date: Nov 23, 2005
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 09, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 providers.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 09, 2008:
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Atlantic Reference Centre (OBIS Canada)
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: CSIRO Marine Data Warehouse (OBIS Australia)
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Ifremer BIOCEAN database (Deep Sea Benthic Fauna)
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Marine and Coastal Management - Demersal Surveys (years 2001-2005) (AfrOBIS)
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Marine and Coastal Management - Demersal Surveys (years 2006-) (AfrOBIS)
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: National Institute of Marine Sciences and Technologies - Trawl Surveys (AfrOBIS)
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: South Western Pacific Regional OBIS Data provider for the NIWA Marine Biodata Information System
- National Chemical Laboratory: IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS
- National Museum of Natural History: NMNH Invertebrate Zoology Collections
- OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2705804
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-96056
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14101746
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 96056
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 522321
Footnotes
- Mean = -639.680 meters (-2,098.688 feet), Standard Deviation = 886.100 based on 266 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
