Field marks
Distinct brown bands across the body; blue-and-yellow tips on the uropods
- Size
- Body length up to 20 cm
- Habitat
- Sandy bottoms; buries by day, active at night
- Distribution
- Chinese coast
- Diet
- Omnivorous, mostly carnivorous
- Counted in
- individuals
- Notes
- Formerly Marsupenaeus japonicus
Habitats
Easily confused with
References
Profile compiled from common references; awaiting expert review.
Same family
Other species in Penaeidae
Observations