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- Title
Life history tactics of southern velvet shrimp Metapenaeopsis palmensis (Crustacea, Decapoda) in the waters off southwestern Taiwan.
- Authors
Chen, Hsu-Sen; Chen, Chiee-Young; Chen, Meng-Hsien
- Abstract
The southern velvet shrimp, Metapenaeopsis palmensis, a small, tropical r-strategist shrimp, was investigated to test whether its life history tactics are similar to those of penaeid shrimps. In total, 7,832 shrimps were collected in southwestern Taiwan from April 2002 to August 2011. For the first time, we have identified the shrimp as a multiple spawner. This species has a size-segregated distribution, with the newly recruited early juveniles [<6.00 mm carapace length (CL)] living offshore (water depth = 30 m) and the subadults and mature spawning adults (CL ≥9.39 mm) living inshore (water depth = 15-20 m). They spawn from February to June before the rainy season when the water temperature exceeds 25°C. Only the larvae hatched in the late spawning season will successfully recruit in the dry season in September-November when the bottom water salinity is higher than 33.5 psu. The life history tactics of this species are different from those found by various previous studies on penaeid shrimps.
- Subjects
TAIWAN; METAPENAEOPSIS; AQUATIC ecology; SPAWNING; SPECIES; SALINITY
- Publication
Hydrobiologia, 2014, Vol 741, Issue 1, p177
- ISSN
0018-8158
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10750-014-1830-8