Acetes japonicus is a shrimp species from the family Sergestidae.[1] It occurs in the western Pacific Ocean and northern Indian Ocean, between Arabian Sea and the Yellow Sea.[2] It is the species of wild shrimp or prawn with the highest reported annual catch, 402 thousand tonnes in 2019, fished by China and South Korea.[3]
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Acetesjaponicus is a shrimp species from the family Sergestidae. It occurs in the western Pacific Ocean and northern Indian Ocean, between Arabian Sea...
65[permanent dead link] Acetesjaponicus (Kishinouye, 1905) FAO, Species Fact Sheet. Retrieved June 2012. S. De Grave (2010). "Acetesjaponicus Kishinouye, 1905"...
genus Acetes are not always distinguished by fishermen, collectively they form the world's largest shrimp fishery. There are fisheries for Acetes in Korea...
clarkii Cultivated 598,289 Akiami paste shrimp Acetesjaponicus Wild 588,761 One of 14 species in the genus Acetes, this small, krill-like prawn is used to...
chelae (pincers). The last two pereiopods are absent in Luciferidae and Acetes, but much longer than the preceding pereiopods in Hymenopenaeus and Xiphopenaeus...
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