Culture History
Taxonomy
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Dendrobranchiata
Family: Penaeidae
Genus: Litopenaeus
Common name
Western blue shrimp
They were found to reside in tropical marine habitats. They were a popular farmed species in the Western hemisphere until the IHHNV attacked them but not L. vannamei, hence the bloom of L. vannamei aquaculture which resides in the same geographical location as L. stylirostris.