Lates Calcarifer (Siakap)

INTRODUCTION Penaeus monodon, commonly known as the giant tiger prawn or Asian tiger shrimp and also known by other common names, is a marine crustacean that is widely reared for food.  Females can reach about 33 cm (13 in) long, but are typically 25–30 cm long and weight 200–320 g.  Males are slightly smaller at 20–25 cm (8–10 in) long and weighing 100–170 g. The carapace and abdomen are transversely banded with alternative red and white. The antennae are grayish brown. Brown pereiopods and pleopods are present with fringing setae in red. Shrimp farming has been practiced for more than a century for food and the livelihood of coastal people in some Asian countries, such as Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan Province of China, Thailand and Viet Nam.  Pond of shrimp farming Penaeus monodon was originally harvested together with other shrimp species from traditional trapping-growing ponds or as a significant by-product of extensive milkfish po

Hello again!! Before this we already had posted on calcifer or mainly known among Malaysian as ‘Siakap’ which is in the top list of most familiar dishes in Malaysia.So we already post about fish and prawn.So let’s move to a new type of aquatic living.For this post,we want to touch about an aquatic living which is quite familiar to us. We decided to talk about jellyfish. Jellyfish or also called jellies   are softbodied, free-swimming aquatic animals with a gelatinous umbrella-shaped bell and trailing tentacles. The bell can pulsate to acquire propulsion and locomotion.  The tentacles may be utilized to capture prey or defend against predators by emitting toxins in a painful sting. Jellyfish species are classified in the subphylum Medusozoa which makes up a major part of the phylum Cnidaria, although not all Medusozoa species are considered to be jellyfish. Jellyfish are found in every ocean, from the surface to the deep sea. Scyphozoans (the "true jellyfish") are