Oriental river prawn

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Oriental river prawn
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Caridea
Family: Palaemonidae
Genus: Macrobrachium
Species:
M. nipponense
Binomial name
Macrobrachium nipponense
De Haan, 1849

Oriental river prawn, or East Asian river prawn (Macrobrachium nipponense) is a species of freshwater shrimp found in Asia that was first described in 1849. [1]

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Range

The natural range covers the delta areas and lower reaches of rivers in the Far East of Asia from Manchuria and Korea in the north to Vietnam and Myanmar in the south, including the Japanese archipelago and Taiwan. [2] [3] [4]

Invasive range

Oriental river prawn from the Danube delta, Ukraine Macrobrachium nipponense, Vylkove 02.jpg
Oriental river prawn from the Danube delta, Ukraine

It was artificially introduced to Europe and Western Asia, leading to the formation of invasive populations. The invasive range covers Iran, Iraq, Dagestan, and the lower reaches of the Don River. In Europe, the Oriental river prawn occurrs in the waters of Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Romania and Ukraine. [5] [6] It was also introduced to the delta of the Guadalquivir River, Spain, through grain traffic from the Danube Delta to Western Europe. [7]

Biology

Inhabits waters with a wide range of salinity, perfectly adapting to fresh water. Complete adaptation to life in completely fresh water occurs within three generations. [8] The prawn larvae have lower survival rates in fresh water than in brackish ones, preferring salinity levels of at least 3-10‰. [9]

References

  1. ↑ Charles Fransen (2012). "Macrobrachium nipponense (De Haan, 1849)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species.
  2. ↑ Cai, Y., & Ng, P.K.L. (2002). The freshwater palaemonid prawns of Myanmar (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea). Hydrobiologia, 487, 59–83.
  3. ↑ Yu, H.-P., & Miyake, S. (1972). Five species of the genus Macrobrachium (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae) from Taiwan. Ohmu, 3, 45–55.
  4. ↑ Bisby, F.A., Ruggiero, M.A., Wilson, K.L., Cachuela-Palacio, M., Kimani, S.W., Roskov, Y.R., Soulier-Perkins, A., & van Hertum, J. (2005). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. 2005 Annual Checklist. Reading, U.K: Species 2000.
  5. ↑ Nekrasova O, Lepekha A, Pupins M, Škute A, Čeirāns A, Theissinger K, Georges J-Y, Kvach Y (2024) Prospects for the spread of the invasive oriental river prawn Macrobrachium nipponense: potentials and risks for aquaculture in Europe. Water 16(19): 2760. https://doi.org/10.3390/w16192760
  6. ↑ Bláha M, Schrottenbaum A, Weiperth A, Hammerschmied U, Graf W, Csányi B, Patoka J, Kouba A (2025) Macrobrachium nipponense (De Haan, 1849) continues to spread in the Danube: first records in Germany and Hungary. Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems 426: 9. https://doi.org/10.1051/kmae/2025004
  7. ↑ De Carvalho-Souza GF, Cuesta JA, González-Ortegón E (2025) A new non-native species detected through citizen science: the presence of a Macrobrachium species (Decapoda, Palaemonidae) in the Guadalquivir River estuary (SW Spain), with an overview of its global spread. Estuarine Management and Technologies 2: 71–86. https://doi.org/10.3897/emt.2.165887
  8. ↑ Salman, S.D., T.J. Page, M.D. Naser and A.A.G. Yasser 2006 The invasion of Macrobrachium nipponense (De Haan, 1849) (Caridea: Palaemonidae) into the southern Iraqi marshes. Aquatic Invasions 1(3):109-115.
  9. ↑ Lepekha A.I., Karavansky Y.V., Zamorov V.V., Kwach Y.V. (2023) SALINITY TOLERANCE OF LARVAE OF ORIENTAL RIVER PRAWN (MACROBRACHIUM NIPPONENSE (DE HAAN, 1849)) (ARTHROPODA: DECAPODA: PALAEMONIDAE). Marine Ecological Journal, 1-2: 16–22. https://doi.org/10.47143/1684-1557/2023.1-2.2


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