Shell fishries

1.What are the two general categories of shellfish?

Answer: Crustaceans and Molluscs

2.Which group of organisms has segmented bodies

covered with armor-like sections of shell?
Answer: Crustaceans

3.Name an example of a crustacean.

Answer: Crab

4.What are the three types of molluscs?

Answer: Bivalves, Univalves, and Cephalopods

5.What are gastropods?

Answer: Snails

6.How many pairs of legs do decapods have?

Answer: 10 pairs

7.Which species is popularly known as SCAMPI and is

native to the Indo-West Pacific region?
Answer: Giant Freshwater Prawn (Macrobrachium
rosenbergii)
8.Which region introduced freshwater prawn farming in
India?
Answer: Inland waters

9.What is the term for marine shrimps in seafood trade?

Answer: Shrimp (Family Penaeidae)

10.Which species of marine shrimp is being farmed

extensively in India?
Answer: Pacific White Shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei)

11.Which crustaceans have an abdomen that is vestigial?

Answer: Crabs

12.What do freshwater crabs primarily feed on?

Answer: Plant material, live or dead animals

13.How many species of freshwater crabs are found in

India?
Answer: 96 species

14.What type of crabs are commonly cultured along the

Indian coast?
Answer: Marine Crabs

15.Which species is known for its slow growth and is

commonly grown out in tanks and cages?
Answer: Lobsters

16.How many pairs of walking legs do lobsters have?

Answer: Five pairs

17Which type of lobsters are commercially important in

Indian waters?
Answer: Spiny Lobsters and Slipper Lobster

18.What is the most important group among bivalves?

Answer: Clams

19.Which bivalve species contributes the most to average

annual clam production?
Answer: Villorita cyprinoides

20.What is the main species of mussel commercially fished

along the Indian coast?
Answer: Green Mussel (Perna viridis)

21.Which oyster species is the most important edible

oyster exploited along the Indian coast?
Answer: Indian Backwater Oyster (Crassostrea
madrasensis)

22.What is the main purpose of the Indian Pearl Oyster

(Pinctata fucata)?
Answer: Production of Cultured Pearls

23.What is the largest group of Phylum Mollusca?

Answer: Gastropods

24.Which marine gastropod is an important fauna of Rocky

Shores?
Answer: Turritella

25.Which group of molluscs supports both capture and

culture fisheries?
Answer: Bivalves

26.What are the three types of gastropods?

Answer: Turritella, Natica, Bursa

27.How many species of marine bivalves are reported from

India?
Answer: Nearly 652 species

28.What percentage of bivalves are clams?

Answer: 85.8%

29.Which gastropod produces Natural Pearls in the sea?

Answer: Pearl Oyster (Pinctata fucata)
30.What is the term for crustaceans with an
exoskeleton/shell?
Answer: Shellfish

31.Which group of shellfish has a soft pliable body with an

internal shell and tentacles?
Answer: Cephalopods

32.How many species of lobsters are recorded from Indian

coastal waters?
Answer: 12 species

33.Which crab species is limited to the fishery along the

southern tip of the Indian peninsula?
Answer: Brown Mussel (Perna indica)

34.Which marine crabs are in great demand in both

domestic and export markets?
Answer: Scylla serrata, S. tranquebarica

35.What is the main purpose of grow-out culture for

lobsters?
Answer: To fetch a better price in the market

36.What type of molluscs are captured for food,

pharmaceuticals, and ornamental purposes?
Answer: Molluscs
37.What are the three types of marine gastropods
mentioned?
Answer: Turritella, Natica, Bursa

38.What are the five pairs of thoracic legs in crabs used

for?
Answer: Capturing prey, walking, and swimming

39.How many species of lobsters are commercially

important in Indian waters?
Answer: Four species of Spiny Lobsters and one species of
Slipper Lobster

40.What is the main species of clam commercially

exploited?
Answer: Villorita cyprinoides

41.What percentage of the contribution to the average

annual clam production comes from three species?
Answer: 93.3%

42.Which mussel species contributes the most to

commercial fishery along the Indian coast?
Answer: Green Mussel (Perna viridis)
43.Which marine crab species is utilized for the production
of Cultured Pearls?
Answer: Pearl Oyster (Pinctata fucata)

44.What is the term for shellfish that inhabit marine,

freshwater, and terrestrial environments?
Answer: Molluscs

45.Which gastropod group is an important fauna of Rocky

Shores?
Answer: Marine gastropods

46.What is the main purpose of the Indian Pearl Oyster

(Pinctata fucata)?
Answer: Production of Cultured Pearls

47.Which type of crabs is primarily nocturnal and prefers

hiding places for shelter during the daytime?
Answer: Crabs

48.What is the scientific name for the Giant Freshwater

Prawn?
Answer: Macrobrachium rosenbergii
49.What is the scientific name for the Indian White
Prawn/Shrimp?
Answer: Penaeus indicus

50.Which scientific name is associated with the Pacific

White Shrimp used in aquaculture?
Answer: Litopenaeus vannamei

51.What is the scientific name for the Indian Freshwater

Crab?
Answer: Barytelphusa cunicularis

52.Which scientific name corresponds to the Mud Crab?

Answer: Scylla serrata

53.What is the scientific name for the Indian Backwater

Oyster?
Answer: Crassostrea madrasensis

54.Which scientific name is associated with the Green

Mussel?
Answer: Perna viridis

55.What is the scientific name for the Pearl Oyster that

produces Natural Pearls?
Answer: Pinctata fucata
56.Which scientific name represents the Blood Calm?
Answer: Anadara granosa

57.What is the scientific name for the Asiatic Hard Clam?

Answer: Meretrix meritrix

58.Which scientific name corresponds to the Short-neck

Clam?
Answer: Paphia malabarica

59.What is the scientific name for the Brown Mussel?

Answer: Perna indica

60.Which scientific name is associated with the Scalloped

Spiny Lobster?
Answer: Panulirus homarus

61.What is the scientific name for the Ornate Spiny

Lobster?
Answer: Panulirus ornatus

62.Which scientific name corresponds to the Slipper

Lobster?
Answer: Thenus orientalis