Decanet name details
Parapenaeus africanus Balss, 1913
377757 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:377757)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Balss, H. (1913). Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentral süd Afrika. Decapode Crustaceen. <em>Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena.</em> 17: 105-110. [details] 
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Parapenaeus africanus Balss, 1913. Accessed at: https://decanet.info/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=377757 on 2025-09-12
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original description
Balss, H. (1913). Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentral süd Afrika. Decapode Crustaceen. <em>Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena.</em> 17: 105-110. [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]