INTRODUCTION 



The references contained in this bibliography were com- 

 piled by the authors in the course of biological studies on com- 

 mercially important shrimp, a phase of the work carried on by 

 the Gulf Fishery Investigations, U. S. Fish cind Wildlife Service. 

 The references are listed only by authors. Although we recognize 

 the limitations imposed by the lack of subject and tcLxonomic in- 

 dexes, we decided to release the bibliography in this form to make 

 it immediately available to other workers. 



In order to keep the bibliography within reasonable compass, 

 only those references which contain specific mention of shrimp be- 

 longing to the family Penaeidae are included. Because many of the 

 publications were not available to us, some are listed incompletely 

 or possibly erroneously; those we were unable to consult have been 

 marked with an asterisk. No attempt was made to gather refer- 

 ences on subjects such as the technological aspects of the shrimp 

 processing industry, palaeontological studies, or shrimp statistics, 

 but a few references in those fields are listed. Shrimp statistics 

 are published annually in the Fishery Statistics of the United States 

 by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Articles dealing with 

 fishing methods and gear have been included because of their 

 general interest to fishery biologists. 



We hope that any errors or omissions will be brought to 

 our attention. 



i./ We are grateful to Mr. Thomas J. Costello, Gulf Fishery 



Investigations, for supplying us with a number of references and 

 considerable encouragement. 



