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Genus: | Marsupenaeus Tirmizi, 1971
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Species: | M. japonicus
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Marsupenaeus japonicus (Spence Bate, 1888) [1]
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Marsupenaeus is a monotypic genus of prawn. It contains a single species, Marsupenaeus japonicus, known as the kuruma shrimp, kuruma prawn, or Japanese tiger prawn. It occurs naturally in bays and seas of the Indo-West Pacific, but has also reached the Mediterranean Sea as a Lessepsian migrant. It is one of the largest species of prawns, and is accordingly one of the most economically important species in the family.