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Family: Penaeidae
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Bocas Species Database Habitat: This species can be found in different types of habitats. Distribution: This species has been reported from North Carolina through Florida, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, Bermuda, and from the Caribbean to Brazil. Depth: 0-329 m Characteristics: Here is a list of some of the key characteristics for this species: rostrum with teeth on dorsal margin only; telson tridentate, fixed spine on each side of tip; carapace without transverse or longitudinal sutures; thelycum of female with median plate lacking marginal and coiled strips, anterior part of median plate long; petasma of male with distoventral projection simple, cleft into 2 unequal lobes, right lobe noticeably larger than left; body pubescent, white, mottled with red. |
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