Whiteleg Shrimp
Penaeus vannamei
Animalia
RARE
Stats
- Lifespan
- 1-2 yrs
- Size
- Medium
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Activity
- Nocturnal
- Social
- School
- Biome
- Coastal marine
- Range
- Eastern Pacific
- Movement
- Swimming
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Burrowing
- Status
- Rare
About
A fast-growing Eastern Pacific shrimp with a translucent, faintly bluish body and slender pale legs. It is the most widely farmed shrimp in the world, accounting for the majority of global shrimp aquaculture.
Life cycle
- 1.juvenileA juvenile crustacean takes adult form after its larval phase, growing in stages between molts.
- 2.adultFully grown at adult size and full hard shell.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Penaeidae
- Genus
- Penaeus
- Species
- Penaeus vannamei