Macrobrachium

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Macrobrachium
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Macrobrachium rosenbergii , the giant freshwater prawn, a commercially important species
Macrobrachium latidactylus (Scissor river prawn, Ulang, Uwang) - Bukidnon, Philippines 14.jpg
Macrobrachium latidactylus , scissor river prawn from the Philippines
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Caridea
Family: Palaemonidae
Genus: Macrobrachium
Spence Bate, 1868
Type species
Macrobrachium americanum
Bate, 1868  [1]

Macrobrachium is a genus of freshwater prawns or shrimps characterised by the extreme enlargement of the second pair of pereiopods, at least in the male. [2]

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Species

It contains these species: [3] [4] [5]

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References

  1. J. W. Short (2004). "A revision of Australian river prawns, Macrobrachium (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae)". Hydrobiologia . 525 (1–3): 1–100. doi:10.1023/B:HYDR.0000038871.50730.95.
  2. Charles Spence Bate (1868). "On a new Genus, with four new Species, of Freshwater Prawns". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London : 363–368.
  3. "Macrobrachium". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved 24 December 2021.
  4. Charles Fransen (2012). "Macrobrachium Spence Bate, 1868a". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved February 11, 2012.
  5. Saengphan, Nukul; Panijpan, Bhinyo; Senapin, Saengchan; Suksomnit, Auaree; Phiwsaiya, Kornsunee (2020-10-29). "Morphology and molecular phylogeny of Macrobrachium saengphani sp. nov. (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Northern Thailand". Zootaxa. 4868 (4): 531–542. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4868.4.4. ISSN   1175-5334. PMID   33311381.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Luis M. Mejía-Ortíz & Marilú López-Mejía (2011). "Freshwater prawns of the genus Macrobrachium (Decapoda, Palaemonidae) with abbreviated development from the Papaloapan River Basin, Veracruz, Mexico: distribution and new species". Crustaceana . 84 (8): 949–973. doi:10.1163/001121611X579754.
  7. Antonina dos Santos, Liliam Hayd & Klaus Anger (2013). "A new species of Macrobrachium Spence Bate, 1868 (Decapoda, Palaemonidae) M. pantanalense, from the Pantanal, Brazil". Zootaxa . 3700 (4): 534–546. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3700.4.2. PMID   26106741.