A Systematic Study on Indian Records of Atypopenaeus Alcock, 1905 with Special Reference to Extended Distribution of Atypopenaeus stenodactylus (Stimpson, 1860)

Abstract

The genus Atypopeneus was erected by Alcock (1905) giving separate generic status to Henderson’s (1893) species Penaeus compressipes and he also proposed that two of Stimpson’s species from Hong Kong, viz., Penaeus podophthalmus and P. stenodactylus be assigned to this genus. Hall (1961) transferred P. stenodactylus from Penaeus to Atypopenaeus. Alcock (1906) reported this genus from Indian water for the first time. The genus Atypopenaeus comprises 5 species throughout the world, out of which Indian representation is only two, Atypopeneus compressipes (Henderson, 1893), found in both east and west coast of India and Atypopeneus stenodactylus (Stimpson, 1860) found only in west coast (Kurian and Sebastean, 1993).