Farfantepenaeus duorarum is a species of marine penaeid shrimp found around Bermuda, along the east coast of the United States and in the Gulf of Mexico. They are a significant commercial species in the United States and Cuba.
Distribution Farfantepenaeus duorarum are found in the Atlantic around Bermuda, along the coast of the United States from Massachusetts to Texas, and along the Mexican coast from Tamaulipas to Campeche. They live at depths of , exceptionally to , with highest densities at , on compacted mud, silt or sandy bottoms, or amongst shells. Juveniles are found in marine or estuarine waters, while adults are marine.
Description Females grow up to long, and males long.
Fishery
Taxonomy Farfantepenaeus duorarum was first described by Martin Burkenroad in 1939, under the name Penaeus duorarum.
In 1967, Isabel Pérez Farfante separated P. duorarum into two subspecies: northern P. d. duorarum and southern P. d. notialis, where notialis is Latin for 'southern'.
By 1980, the northern and southern pink shrimp were being treated as distinct species, rather than subspecies.
It was transferred to Farfantepenaeus when that new genus was erected by Rudolf N. Burukovsky in 1997.
The FAO's preferred name for the species is northern pink shrimp; other common names, used in the US, are pink shrimp, spotted shrimp, pink-spotted shrimp, brown-spotted shrimp, grooved shrimp, green shrimp, pink night shrimp, red shrimp, hopper ("Dettloff brown"), skipper, pushed shrimp and bait shrimp.Pink shrimp NOAA FishWatch. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
References
Further reading Holthuis L. B. (1980) Shrimps and Prawns of the World. An Annotated Catalogue of Species of Interest to Fisheries, FAO Fisheries Synopsis No.125, Volume 1.