Malacostraca | 
Decapoda | 
Penaeidae
			
			
			
				Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range				
				
					Ecology				
				
			
			
				Benthic; depth range 20 - 90 m (Ref. 8), usually ? - 50 m (Ref. 801).  Tropical; 30°N -   12°S, 47°E -   129°E			
			
			
				
			
			
			
				Indian Ocean:  from Kuwait and Pakistan to Bangladesh.  Pérez Farfante recognizes 2 subspecies:  Parapenaeopsis stylifera stylifera from Persian Gulf to India and Sri Lanka and Parapenaeopsis stylifera coromandelica from east coast of India to Indonesia.
			
			
			
			
			
				Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
			
			
				Maturity: Lm 9.0, range 6 -  7 cm Max length : 12.6 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 119750); 14.9 cm TL (female); max. reported age: 2.00 years (Ref. 114955)			
			
			
						
			
			
			
			
				
					From coast to depths of 90 m, but usually down to 50 m on muddy or sandy-mud substrates (Ref. 801).  Omnivorous bottom feeder, mainly feeding on crustaceans, mud and detritus, vegetable matter, gastropods, bivalves, diatoms, and sand particles. Higher feeding intensity observed with sexual maturity (Ref. 106981).				
			
			
			
			
			
			
				
					Also Refs. 833, 106504.				
			
			
			
			
			
				Holthuis, L.B. 1980 FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 1. Shrimps and prawns of the world. An annotated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries. FAO Fish. Synop. 125(1):271 p. Rome: FAO. (Ref. 8)
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
					
						IUCN Red List Status    
						 (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)
					
					
					
				
			
			
			
			
				CITES status   (Ref. 108899)
			
			
				
					Not Evaluated				
			
			
			
			
			
			
				
					Not Evaluated				
			
			
			
			
			
				Threat to humans  
			
			
				
									
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
				Human uses  
			
			
				Fisheries: commercial			
			
			
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						Preferred temperature  					
				 (Ref. 
115969): 23.5 - 28.6, mean 27.8 (based on 353 cells).			
 
			
			
			
							
					Resilience  				
				
				
					High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (K=1-2.48; tmax=2).				
			
			
						
							
				
					
						Fishing Vulnerability  					
					
					
						Low vulnerability (10 of 100).