Abstract
This study reports an updated checklist of marine shrimps found along the Indian coast, including the Lakshadweep and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. A total of 364 species classified under 128 genera belonging to the order Decapoda is reported, thus adding 27 species to the existing checklist of 337 species. Marine shrimps are classified under two suborders of the order Decapoda, viz., Dendrobranchiata and Pleocyemata, and the two suborders account for 155 (42.6 %) and 209 species (57.4 %) of these 364 species, respectively. Pleocyemata is represented by three infraorders, viz., Axiidea, Caridea and Stenopodidea, while Caridea has a maximum of 199 reported species. Among the 12 superfamilies, Penaeoidea contributed to 38.13% (135 species) followed by Paleaemonidea with 18.07% (64 species). All other superfamilies were found to contribute less than 12%. Superfamilies, Bresilloidea and Psalidopodoidea had only single species representatives (0.28% each). The final list was compiled after reviewing all existing literature including monographs, catalogues, checklists, websites and fishery reports. The scientific names were validated with the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) database. A total of 25 issues were identified from the previous checklist out of which 19 species have been updated with the correct, accepted names and six species have been removed from the previous list.
Highlights
Crustacean fishery as a whole accounts for more than 7% of the total produced through aquaculture
Shrimps account for 30% of the export of marine products in weight and 64% of the revenue generated from export of marine products (Anonymous 2014)
Shrimps are the single most important marine food resource that is of the highest commercial value
Summary
Crustacean fishery as a whole accounts for more than 7% of the total produced through aquaculture. The first comprehensive catalogue of Indian deep sea Crustacea (Decapoda, Macrura and Anomala) was compiled by Alcock (1901) This was followed by several works from extensive surveys of shrimp resources in different regions of the Indian coast (e.g., Kunju 1960; George 1966; Muthu & George 1971; Mohamed & Suseelan 1973; Silas & Muthu 1976; Thomas 1979; Rao 1984; Ravindranath 1989). A total of 437 species were recorded out of which, 343 species were marine forms and 94 freshwater This is the latest checklist available for the shrimps along the Indian coasts. The current work was carried out with an intention to produce a taxonomically verified checklist of the shrimps recorded along the Indian coast, which would be a base document for further studies
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