Verified identity / region
Wu Yi-chin / Taiwan King Kong shrimp history; Southern Taiwan (as identified by Reuters, 2009)
Timeline and historical context
Named by 2009 Reuters/Taipei Times report at Taiwan International Aquarium Expo discussing rare King Kong shrimp, Japanese collector demand, and a small number of Taiwanese breeders. Report supplies contemporaneous evidence that King Kong phenotype was commercially present by 2009.
Documented methods / available evidence
Discusses challenges of husbandry and keeping a small high-value line in trade; no tank methods or actual parent crosses disclosed.
Uncertainty and safety
The article's attributed '30 years of raising King Kong shrimp' chronology conflicts with later reported development history; preserve verbatim attribution only in original source, do not interpret as a verified 1979 King Kong breeding date or sole founding pedigree.
Strain labels and known named projects
Taiwan Bee Black King Kong
Primary and first-person source ledger
- Contemporaneous Reuters 2009 Taiwan King Kong exhibit article — Contemporaneous press, not breeder pedigree