This authoritative review will be valuable reference for marine
biologists, ecologists, and taxonomists. It is also an essential
handbook for the penaeid fisheries biologist or aquaculturist
and is a prerequisite for the rational exploitation and
cultivation of penaeids.**Although penaeids are a large and
diverse decapod group which have been exploited commercially in
both fisheries and aquaculture for hundreds of years, no
comprehensive review of their biology has never been written.
The group's commercial importance has led to an unbalanced
literature, dominated by the fisheries and aquaculture aspects
of the genus Penaeus, often without an appreciation of their
underlying biology.**This review adopts a multidisciplinary
approach to give a comprehensive and up-to-date account of
morphology, taxonomy (including larvae), zoogeography,
physiology, reproduction, feeding, growth, behaviour, and life
histories. Chapters discussing the parasites of, and predation
on penaeids, are also included. So much new materia