Chinese white shrimp

Chinese white shrimp
Fleshy prawns being sold at Noryangjin Fish Market, South Korea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Dendrobranchiata
Family: Penaeidae
Genus: Fenneropenaeus
Species:
F. chinensis
Binomial name
Fenneropenaeus chinensis
(Osbeck, 1765)
Synonyms [1]
  • Cancer chinensis Osbeck, 1765
  • Penaeus chinensis (Osbeck, 1765)
  • Penaeus orientalis Kishinouye, 1917

The Chinese white shrimp, oriental shrimp, or fleshy prawn (Fenneropenaeus chinensis) is a species of shrimp. It is cultivated at an industrial level off mainland China. Production was devastated by a series of epidemics in the 1990s and early 2000s.[2] Its wild capture has since recovered and expanded, but it is now farmed at lower levels than previously.[1]

It was formerly known as Cancer chinensis, Penaeus chinensis and Penaeus orientalis,[1] but has been reassigned to Fenneropenaeus.

  1. ^ a b c Food and Agriculture Organization. Species Fact Sheets: Penaeus chinensis (Osbeck, 1765). 2014.
  2. ^ "An Overview of China's Aquaculture", p. 6. Netherlands Business Support Office (Dalian), 2010. Accessed 13 Aug 2014.