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The shrimp have three general body parts: head, thorax, and abdomen. The body of the shrimp has 19 parts, 5 parts are related to the head, 8 parts are related to the thorax and 6 parts are related to the abdominal part. The tail segment is connected to the sixth abdominal segment.
Objectives: Students will be able to identify types of crustaceans and provide examples. Students will be able to describe the basic biology of aquacultured crustaceans. Students will be able to identify key anatomical features of common crustacean species.
The shell consists of abdomen and pleura (outer part of the flesh) and pleopods and is considered as the body surface and has high chitin content. The "head part" consists of head, offal,...
The shrimp has nineteen (19) separate sections of the body. Two (2) main segments make up the body of a freshwater or marine shrimp. The first part is the upper portion of the shrimp, referred to as the cephalothorax. The cephalothorax includes the head and the thorax or pereon region of the shrimp.
Life Cycle of P. vannamei: The white leg shrimp, penaeid shrimp has six pairs segments. The swimming P. vannamei (Figure 1) is native to the Eastern Pacific coast of Mexico and Northern Peru. This species likes areas where water temperatures are usually over 25°C the whole year. The female shrimp grow faster than males.
The female shrimp releases ova through a gono-pore which opens through labiate structures between the third walking legs. Fertilization takes place on the thelycum, a structure made up of modified sternal plates on the fourth and fifth thoracic segments.
Like all crustaceans, shrimp have three distinct body parts: head, thorax and abdomen. The common shrimp is broken down into 8 major parts: Sand Shrimp.
