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Macrobrachium australe

Description

Macrobrachium australe (Guérin-Méneville, 1838)

Palaemon australis Guérin-Méneville, 1838: 37 [type locality: Tahiti, French Polynesia].

Palaemon sundaicus Heller, 1862: 415, Pl. 2 Figs. 38, 39 [type locality: Java, Indonesia].

Palaemon dispar Von Martens 1868: 41 [type locality: Pulau Adonara, east of Flores, Indonesia].

Palaemon (Eupalaemon) dispar – De Man, 1902: 766.

Macrobrachium australe – Holthuis, 1950: 124, Figs. 27-30; Chace & Bruce, 1993: 23, Fig. 2; Cai & Ng, 2001: 683, Fig. 14a-d; Cai & Anker, 2004: 258.

Material examined. – 2 males, cl 3.0- 3.1 mm, UR, Caboroan, Luzon Island, Philippines, 15 Jul.1985; 1 male, cl 26 mm, UR, Bauang River, Luzon Island, Philippines, 16 Jul.1985; 1 female, cl 10.5 mm, 1 ovig. female, cl 13.5 mm, UR, Iraan River, Philippines, 5 Aug.1985; 1 male, cl 30 mm, UR, Agan River, Mindoro Island, Philippines, 14 Aug.1985.

Remarks. – This is one of the most common and widely distributed species in the Indo-West Pacific.

Distribution. – Indo-West Pacific, from Madagascar to Polynesia.

Notes

Published as part of Shokita, Yixiong Cai Shigemitsu, 2006, Report On A Collection Of Freshwater Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) From The Philippines, With Descriptions Of Four New Species, pp. 245-270 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 54 (2) on page 263, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13245522

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References

  • Heller, C., 1862. Neue Crustaceen gesammelt wahrend der Weltumseglung der k. k. Fregatte Novara: Zweiter vorlaufiger Bericht. Verhandlungen des Kaiserlich-Koniglichen Zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 12: 519 - 528.
  • Von Martens, E., 1868. Ueber einige ostasiatische Susswasserthiere. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 34 (1): 1 - 67, Pls. 1.
  • De Man, J. G., 1902. Die von Herrn Professor Kukenthal in Indischen Archipel gesammelten Dekapoden und Stomatopoden. In W. Kukenthal, Ergebnisse einer zoologischen Forschungsreise in den Molukken und Borneo. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 25 (3): 467 - 929, Pls. 18 - 20.
  • Holthuis, L. B., 1950. Subfamily Palaemonidae. The Palaemonidae collected by the Siboga and Snellius Expeditions with remarks on other species. I. The Decapoda of the Siboga Expedition. Part X. Siboga Expeditie, 39 (a 9): 1 - 268, Figs. 1 - 52.