Hands on Guide to Shellfish Taxonomy

Contents: 1. Study of External Morphology of Shellfish. 2. Collection, Identification and Preservation of Crustaceans. 3. Commercially Important Shrimp and Prawn Species in India: Identification Up to the Family Level. 4. Identification of Family: Penaeidae Genera. 5. Identification Key Characters of Genus: Penaeus Commercially Important Species. 6. Comparative Morphological Study of Metapenaeus and Metapenaeopsis Genera. 2. Identification of Genus: Parapenaeopsis commercially important species. 8. Identification of Family: Solenoceridae Genera. 9. Identification of the Genus Solenocera H. Lucas, 1849 Commercially Important Species. 10. Identification of Deep-Sea Shrimps in Indian Waters. 11. Taxonomical Identification of Family: Sergestidae (Genus and Species Level). 12. Taxonomical Identification of Family: Hippolytidae (Genus and Species level). 13. Taxonomical Identification of Family: Palaemonidae (Genus and Species Level). 14. Identification of Lobster up to Family Level. 15. Identification of Commercially Important Lobster Genera. 16. Identification and Classification of Genus: Panulirus Lobster Species. 17. Identification and Classification of Genus: Palinustus, Linuparus and Puerulus Lobster Species. 18. Identification and Classification of the Family Scyllaridae: Key Genera and Species in Indian Waters. 19. Identification and Classification of Freshwater Crayfish Families. 20. Identification and Study of Procambarus clarkii (Girard, 1852) –The Red Swamp Crayfish. 21. Identification of Crab up to Family Level. 22. Identification of Crab up to Genera Level. 23. Identification of Commercially Important Crab species in India. 24. Morphometric Measurements of Shrimp and Prawn. 25. Meristic counts of Shrimp and Prawn. 26. Morphometric and Meristic Measurements of Lobsters. 27. Morphometric and Meristic Measurements of Crab. 28. Identification of Gastropods up to Family Level. 29. Identification of Gastropods up to their Species Level. 30. Identification of Bivalvia up to Family Level. 31. Commercially Important Bivalve Species in India. 32. Identification of Scaphopoda up to Family Level. 33. Commercially Important Scaphopoda species in India. 34. Identification of Cephalopods up to Family Level. 35. Commercially Important Cephalopoda Species in India. 36. Family-Level Identification of Chiton Species. 37. Morphometry Measurements of Molluscs. 38. General Collection Methods for Molluscs. 39. Collection, Labelling, and Preservation of Molluscs. 40. Collection and Preservation of Cephalopods.