Promising to tell you the Prawn, the whole Prawn and nothing but the Prawn. Here I shine a light on global shrimp aquaculture and downstream markets. For those looking in from outside and those inside interested in the wider outside. Food trends, intelligence, tech, regulatory, investment and some fun, way out, or even wacky, shrimp material. Compressing 4,000 years of shrimp knowledge into 40 years – and counting.
Well, just look at the classification below.
Shrimp is in a class of it’s own – Malacostraca – Bad cost tracking! :
Domain = Eucarya
Kingdom = Animalia
Phylum = Anthropoda
Subphylum = Crustacea
Class = Malacostraca
Subclass = Eumalacostraca
Superorder = Eucarida
Order = Decapoda
Suborder = Dendrobranchiata
Super Family = Penaeoidea
Family = Penaeidae
Genus = Penaeus
Species = vannamei
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