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CAAB Taxon Code: 28 712008
Scientific Name and Authority: Aristaeopsis edwardsiana (Johnson, 1867)

CAAB category: 28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca - Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.)
Family: 28 712 Aristeidae (penaeid prawns)    show full list

Common Name: giant scarlet prawn
Suggested Indexable Form: prawn, giant scarlet
Common Names List: giant red prawn; giant scarlet prawn; scarlet prawn; scarlet shrimp
Standard (Commercial) Name(s): Prawn
FAO Name: scarlet shrimp

Organism Type: a penaeid prawn

Other names used in Australia: Plesiopenaeus edwardsianus

Taxon Notes: This code replaces previous (interim) CAAB code 00 701003 (FISHLIST 701003).
Scientific Name Notes:
Common/Standard Name Notes:

Parent Codes (if any):
   28 712000 .. Aristeidae - undifferentiated .. deep sea prawns
Child Codes (if any):
Previous Codes (if any):
  00 701003, 701003

ITIS (USA) identifier for this taxon: 96071

Taxon status (on CAAB list):
   Taxon on current Australian list: Yes
   Taxon on commercial species list: Yes
   Taxon on Standard Fish Names List: No

Record source:
   Holthuis, L. B., 1980. Shrimps and Prawns of the World. FAO Species Catalogue, Vol. 1. F.A.O., Rome.

Scientific Name verified against:
   Dall, W., 2001. Australian species of Aristeidae and Benthesicymidae (Penaeoidea: Decapoda). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 46(2): 409-441.

On-line resources for this taxon:

Australian Faunal Directory