Texas yield the highest catches. This species was 

 tlie only shrimp tislied in the estuarine waters along 

 the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico until 

 about 1937-38, when offshore stocks began to be 

 fished. The resource then declined \vhile landings of 

 brown and pink shrimps increased. By mid-1950, 

 catches of those two species far exceeded catches 

 of white shrimp. During 1956-59, white shrimp 

 constituted only 20 percent of all Gulf shrimp 

 produced bj' U.S. fishermen, but landings in re- 

 cent years have risen again. According to Lyles 

 (1967), annual landings of white shrimp in the 

 United States during 1965 were 30,865,840 kg. 

 (whole weight), or about 31 percent of all shrimp 

 landed. 



Along the Gulf coast of Mexico the white shrimp 

 is caught commercially on the northeast coast of 

 Tamaulipas and off Cabo Eojo, Veracruz, where it 

 is fished in small quantities. The most important 

 white shrimp grounds in Mexico are between 

 Laguna IMecoacan and Paso Real, in Golfo 

 (Bahia) de Campeche. P. setifervs contributes sub- 

 stantially to the shrimp landings from the Gulf 

 coast of Mexico— 20,221,000 kg. in 1966 (Croker, 

 1968) — but the actual composition of the landings, 

 which also include P. d. dvorarum and P. a. 

 aztems. is not known. 



Penaeus (Litopenaeus) schmitti 



BURKENROAD 



Figures 14 to 19 



Cuba, Honduras, Nicaragua, Venezuela: cama- 

 ron bianco. Cuba : camaron casquiazul. Vene- 

 zuela: longostino bianco. Brazil: camarao le- 

 gitimo, camarao verdadeiro, camarao branco, 

 camarao lixo, vilafranca, caboclo. United States: 

 white shrimp, blue shrimp, green shrimp. British 

 Honduras: white shrimp. 



Cancer seti ferns : Gmelin, 1790 : 2990 [part] : 



[fide] Gunter, 1962a: 108; Gunter, 1962b: 119; 



Gunter, 1963: 104, 105, 107, 108; Gunter, 1964: 



229-231. Not Cancer setiferus L., 1767. 



Astacus setiferus: Olivier, 1791: 343. Not C. 



setiferus L., 1767. 

 Palaemon setiferus: Olivier, 1811: 660; [fide] 



Gunter, 1962a : 108. Not C. setiferus L., 1767. 

 Penaeus setifervs : H. Milne Edwards, 1837 : 414, 

 415 [part] ; de Saussure, 1858 : 471 [part] : Hel- 

 ler, 1865 : 121 ; Bate, 1881 : 176-178, pi. 11, fig. 1 ; 

 Kingsley, 1882: 107 [part]; Sharp, 1893: 110 

 [part]; Guppy, 1894: 115; Eathbun, 1897: 45, 

 46 ; Eathbun, 1900 : 151 ; Moreira, 1901 : 7, 72, 73 ; 



Johnson and Lindner, 1934: 68; Burkenroad, 

 1934: 77, 86 [part]; Burkenroad, 1939: 19, 20 

 [part]; von Ihering, 1940: 194, 871, fig.; de 

 Oliveira, 1940 : 141 ; Magalhaes Filho, 1943 : 12, 

 24 ; Magalhaes Filho, 1944 : 100, 101 ; de Oliveira, 

 1944: 133; de Oliveira, 1950: 371, 386; Sanchez 

 Eoig and Gomez de la Maza, 1952 : 162, 163, fig. 

 5; Devoid, 1958: 20; Gunter, 1962a: 107-112; 

 Gunter, 1962b: 119-121; Gmiter, 1963: 103, 

 105-108; Gunter, 1964: 229, 230: Gunter, 1966: 

 78. Not P. setiferus (L.) , 1767. 



Penaeus setifer: von Martens, 1872: 141, 142; von 

 Martens, 1876 : 38 ; Doflein, 1900 : 126, 127 [part] . 



Peneus setiferus: von Ihering, 1897: 156. Not P. 

 setiferus (L.),1767. 



Penaeus schmitti Burkenroad, 1936: 313-318, figs, 

 la, 2, 3 ( lectotype, here designated, $ , YPM 

 4396-BOC 128-Kingston, Jamaica, February 1, 

 1934; paralectotypes, YPM) ; Burkenroad, 1939, 

 19, 20 ; Anderson and Lindner, 1945 : 304 ; White- 

 leather and Brown, 1945 : 25, 27; Carlson, 1953 : 

 34; Perez Farfante, 1953: 232-235, 238, 241; 

 Perez Farfante, 1954a : 97; Voss, 1955 : 8, 10, fig. 

 10a, b ; Gunter, 1956 : 100 ; Dall, 1957 : 142 ; Lind- 

 ner, 1957 : 11-14, 16, 21-23, 34-36, 65-67, 69, 70, 

 129-131, 153, 154, 160-165; Suarez Caabro, 1957: 

 137; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1958a: 11, 

 13 ; Lindner, 1858 : 31-33 ; Suarez Caabro, 1958 : 



5, 7 ; Bullis and Thompson, 1959a : 41 ; Bullis and 

 Thompson, 1959b : 7, 9 ; Higman, 1959 : 8, 10, 13 ; 

 Holthuis, 1959: 42-44, 61-63, 66, fig. 6a; Eldred 

 and Hutton, 1960: 91, 98, 99, 101, 104, 108; 

 Sadowski and Eadasewski, 1960: 1-5; Anony- 

 mous, 1961: 34; Perez Farfante, Acosta, and 

 Alemany, 1961: 33, 36-38, 50; Gunter, 1962a: 

 110, 111; Holthuis, 1962: 115, 117, 118; Idyll, 

 1962: 184; Kutkuhn, 1962: 343; Loescli, 1962: 

 172-177; Miles, 1962: 189, 193; Boschi, 1963: 5, 



6, 13, 17-20, 29, figs. 5 (1-7), 11; Davant, 1963: 

 9-11, 26-29, 34, 35, 66, 67, 82-85, 87, 88, 90, 91, 

 figs. 4, 5, and 4, 5, bis ; Gunter, 1963 : 103, 104, 

 106 ; Simpson, 1963 : 22, 23 ; Boschi, 1964 : 39, 41 : 

 Ewald, 1964: 20, 22, 24, 25, table, figs. 10, 11; 

 Gunter, 1964: 230, 231; Holthuis, 1964a: 227- 

 229; Neiva and Wise, 1964: 132, 133; Tremel, 

 Wise, Mistakidis, and Jonsson, 1964 : 6, 7, 12, 20, 

 24; Ewald, 1965a: 26, 29, 30; Ewald, 1965c, 51, 

 52, 59, 65, 69, 72-74, 80, 81, 83, 84, 86, 88-99, 103- 

 114, 5 figs., pis. 3-5; Garcia Pinto, 1965: 131- 

 134; Holthuis and Eosa, 1965: 6; Mistakidis, 

 1965 : 9, 11, 18, 28 ; Pericchi Lopez, 1965 : 23 ; da 



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