Macrobrachium equidens
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Palaemon equidens Dana, 1852: 26 [type locality: Singapore]. Palaemon sundaicus – Cowles, 1914: 355, Pl. 2 Fig. 3.
Macrobrachium equidens – Holthuis, 1950:162, Fig. 36; 1980: 90; Liu et al., 1990: 110, Fig. 8; Chace & Bruce, 1993: 25, Fig. 4; Yeo et al., 1999: 226; Cai, Naiyanetr & Ng, 2004: 389; Cai & Anker, 2004: 258.
Material examined. – 3 females, cl 18-23 mm, UR, Iloilo city market Panay Island, Philippines; 19 Aug. 1985; 1 female, cl 14.5 mm, 1 ovig. female, 16.0 mm, UR, Sewaragan River, San Joaquin, Panay Island, Philippines, 19 Aug.1985; 1 ovig. female, cl 14.0 mm, UR, Bororo River, Luzon Island, Philippines, 16 Jul.1985; 2 females, cl 6.2-7.9 mm, Villaflor River, Mindoro Island, Philippines, 15 Aug.1985; 1 male, cl 15 mm, 1 female, cl 10.0 mm, UR, brakish water in a cave near mangrove, Bahile River, Palawan Island, Philippines, 9 Aug.1985; 1 female, cl 12 mm, UR, San Francisco River, Surigao Del Nork, Mindanao Island, Philippines, 25 Jul.1985; 3 ovig. females, cl 7.5-8.4 mm, UR, Naguilian River, Luzon, Philippines, 14 Jul.1985.
Remarks. – Marcobrachium equidens is a brackish water species, with smaller specimens being commonly found in mangrove creeks. It is known from a very wide area in the Indo-West Pacific, from Madagascar to the Solomon Islands.
Distribution. – Indo-West Pacific.
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Biodiversity
- Event date
- 1985-07-14 , 1985-07-16 , 1985-07-25 , 1985-08-09 , 1985-08-15 , 1985-08-19
- Verbatim event date
- 1985-07-14 , 1985-07-16 , 1985-07-25 , 1985-08-09 , 1985-08-15 , 1985-08-19
- Scientific name authorship
- Dana
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Palaemonidae
- Genus
- Macrobrachium
- Species
- equidens
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Macrobrachium equidens (Dana, 1852) sec. Shokita, 2006
References
- Dana, J. D., 1852. Crustacea, Part 1. In United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, under the Command of Charles Wilkes, U. S. N., 13: 1 - 685. Atlas (1855): 1 - 27, Pls. 1 - 96. Philadelphia.
- Cowles, R. P., 1914. Palaemons of the Philippine Islands. Philippine Journal of Sciences, (D), 9 (4): 319 - 403, Fig. 1, Pls. 1 - 3.
- 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.
- Liu, R., X. Liang & S. Yan, 1990. A study of the Palaemonidae (Crustacea Decapoda) from China I. Macrobrachium, Leander and Leandrites. Transactions of the Chinese Crustacean Society, 2: 102 - 134, Figs. 1 - 24. (In Chinese with English abstract).
- Yeo, D. C. J., Y. Cai & P. K. L. Ng. 1999. The freshwater and terrestrial Decapod Crustacea of Pulau Tioman, Peninsular Malaysia. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 6: 190 - 244, Figs. 1 - 20.