Decanet name details
Melicertus plebejus (Hess, 1865)
377471 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:377471)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Penaeus plebejus Hess, 1865) Hess, W. (1865). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Decapoden-Krebse Ost-Australiens. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 31(1): 127-173, pls. 6-8. [details] 
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Melicertus plebejus (Hess, 1865). Accessed at: https://decanet.info/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=377471 on 2025-09-11
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(of Penaeus plebejus Hess, 1865) Hess, W. (1865). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Decapoden-Krebse Ost-Australiens. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 31(1): 127-173, pls. 6-8. [details]
basis of record Pérez Farfante, I.; Kensley, B. (1997). Penaeoid and sergestoid shrimps and prawns of the world. Keys and diagnoses for the families and genera. <em>Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire naturelle.</em> 175: 1-233. [details] Available for editors
additional source De Grave, S.; Fransen, C.H.J.M. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). <em>Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden.</em> 85(9): 195-589. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Pérez Farfante, I.; Kensley, B. (1997). Penaeoid and sergestoid shrimps and prawns of the world. Keys and diagnoses for the families and genera. <em>Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire naturelle.</em> 175: 1-233. [details] Available for editors
additional source De Grave, S.; Fransen, C.H.J.M. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). <em>Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden.</em> 85(9): 195-589. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality