Published July 4, 2024 | Version v1
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Macrobrachium placidulum

  • 1. UMR 8067 Biologie des organismes et écosystèmes aquatiques (BOREA), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Université, Université de Caen Normandie, Université des Antilles, CNRS, IRD, CP 26, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005, Paris, France. & Museum fu ̈ r Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115, Berlin, Germany
  • 2. 96 rue de Richelieu, 75002, Paris, France.
  • 3. Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Research Center for Biosystematics and Evolution, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Jalan Raya Jakarta-Bogor Km 46, Cibinong 16911, Indonesia.
  • 4. UMR 8067 Biologie des organismes et écosystèmes aquatiques (BOREA), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Université, Université de Caen Normandie, Université des Antilles, CNRS, IRD, CP 26, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005, Paris, France.

Description

Key to species of the Macrobrachium placidulum species group

1. Rostrum with 3 or 4 postorbital teeth and epigastric length 0.23–0.27 of carapace length.............. M. ngankeeae n. sp.

– Rostrum with 4–7 postorbital teeth and epigastric length 0.24–0.55 of carapace length............................... 2

2. Rostral dorsal margin above eyes flat and straight................................................... M. feunteuni

– Rostral dorsal margin above eyes convex.................................................................. 3

3. Ocular beak absent or very poorly developed.................................................... M. placidulum

– Ocular beak well developed............................................................................. 4

4. T4 without median process..................................................................... M. placidum

– T4 with median process.................................................................. M. lepidactyloides

Notes

Published as part of Mazancourt, Valentin De, Marquet, Gerard, Wowor, Daisy & Keith, Philippe, 2024, Macrobrachium ngankeeae, a new species of freshwater shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Papua Barat Province, Indonesia, pp. 253-266 in Zootaxa 5476 (1) on page 263, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5476.1.22, http://zenodo.org/record/12727070

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