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Macrobrachium equidens

Description

Macrobrachium equidens (Dana, 1852)

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.

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 265, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13245522

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  • 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.