Litopenaeus

{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = ''Litopenaeus'' | image = OBSIBLUE-crevette-bleue.jpg | image_caption = ''Litopenaeus stylirostris'' | taxon = Litopenaeus | authority = Pérez Farfante, 1967 <ref>{{cite WoRMS |author=Sammy De Grave |year=2011 |title=''Litopenaeus'' Pérez Farfante, 1969 |id=158335 |access-date=February 5, 2012}}</ref> }}

'''''Litopenaeus''''' is a genus of prawns, formerly included in the genus ''Penaeus''.<ref name="Farfante">{{cite book |author=Isabel Pérez Farfante, Brian Frederick Kensley |year=1997 |title=Penaeoid and Sergestoid Shrimps and Prawns of the World: Keys and Diagnoses for the Families and Genera |volume=175 |series=Mémoires du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle |publisher=Muséum national d'histoire naturelle |isbn=978-2-85653-510-3 |pages=1–233}}</ref> It contains five species:<ref name="Carideorum">{{cite journal|author=S. De Grave & C. H. J. M. Fransen |year=2011 |title=Carideorum Catalogus: the Recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) |journal=Zoologische Mededelingen |volume=85 |issue=9 |pages=195–589, figs. 1–59 |isbn=978-90-6519-200-4 |url=http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/85/nr02/a01 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121220093841/http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/85/nr02/a01 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-12-20 }}</ref> {{Linked species list | Litopenaeus occidentalis | (Streets, 1871) | Litopenaeus schmitti | (Burkenroad, 1936) | Litopenaeus setiferus | (Linnaeus, 1767) | Litopenaeus stylirostris | (Stimpson, 1871) | Litopenaeus vannamei | (Boone, 1931) }}

==Parasites== ''Litopenaeus'' is a suspected host of ''Vibrio parahaemolyticus'', a pathogen of humans.

==References== {{Reflist|32em}}

Category:Penaeidae