Melicertus - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Melicertus is a genus of "king" prawn

Prawn

Prawns are decapod crustaceans of the sub-order Dendrobranchiata. There are 540 extant species, in seven families, and a fossil record extending back to the Devonian...

s, comprising eight species:

Melicertus canaliculatus (Olivier, 1811)
Melicertus hathor Burkenroad, 1959
Melicertus kerathurus (Forskål, 1775)
Melicertus latisulcatus (Kishinouye, 1896)
Melicertus longistylus (Kubo, 1943)
Melicertus marginatus (Randall, 1840)
Melicertus plebejus (Hess, 1865)
Melicertus similis Chanda & Bhattacharya, 2002

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