PRAWNS

• Classification
• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Arthropoda
• Class: Crustacea
• Order: Decapoda
• Family: Palaemonidae
• Genus: Macrobrachium
• Species: M. rosenbergii
• Small aquatic marine swimming crustacean which resembles a large shrimp.
• long antennae and a colorless shell.
• an exoskeleton and having ten legs and some of which can be eaten.
• Prawns can also be found in both fresh and salt water, but unlike shrimp, most varieties are
found in fresh water.
• Most varieties of prawn prefer warmer waters.
• Prawns often reside in calm waters where they can perch on plants or rocks and
comfortably lay their eggs.
• Prawns are typically larger than shrimp.
• Prawns have claws on three of their five pairs of legs.
• Have distinctive color.
• Most prawns swim or drift in water
• Other spend most of their lives searching for food on the seabed.
• Some called as cleaner prawns specialize in picking parasites and leftover food of fish.
 NERVOUS SYSTEM
OF A PRAWNS

CNS PNS ANS

-Brain -Nerves from brain

-Circumoesophegeal Sensory organs
-Nerves from cephalothoradc
connectives ganglionic mass
-Ventral thoracic mass -Nerve from abdominal
-Ventral nerve cord ganglia
• Antennule- The pincers are held in front and the feelers of the antennules
• Antennae- are in continuous motion making a survey of the environment.
• Eyes- able to see.
• Visceral ganglia- It contains the cell bodies of autonomic nerves.
• Mandibular- The mandibular nerve is the only branch of CN V to conduct motor axons to
the muscles of the head and neck.
• Maxillary- sensory organs used to test the quality of the food.
• Walking legs-
• Pedal nerve- each of pair operated levers use for the legs propelled by the legs.
• Extension- a part that is added to something to enlarge of of it a continuation
• Flexure- the action of bending and curving
• Uropods- posterior appendages typically have function in locomotion.
• Telson- in the middle of uropods is a structure called the telson together make up the tail fan.

PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM

A. Nerves from brain
- Optic
-Ophthalmic
-Antennulary
-Tegumental
B. Nerves from cephalothoradc ganglionic mass
Eleven pairs of nerves originated from cephalothoracic ganglionic mass.
C. Nerves from abdominal ganglia.
 AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM
Sense Organs
Statocysts- balance control contains statoliths( sensory receptors for response to gravity.
Tactile setae- hairl present in the statocyst (organellesof balance)
Olfactory setae- carries specialize sensory organ.
Compound eyes- pair of large stalked eyes composed of large number ofindependent visual
units called ommatida.
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