Palaemon (Macrobrachium)? olfersii – Gordon 1935: 323, Guyana [immature specimens].
Macrobrachium ? olfersii – Holthuis 1948: 1112, Suriname [small and/or incomplete specimens].
Macrobrachium olfersii – Holthuis 1952: 95, Guyana, Suriname; 1959a: 94, Suriname; 1993: 6, Suriname [Brokopondo Lake]. — Magalhães & Pereira 2007: tab. 2, Suriname. — Vieira 2008: tab. 5.1: 69, Brazil Amapá [Tumucumaque National Park, coll. 2004–2006]. — Pimentel & Magalhães 2014: 1309, fig. 3, Brazil Amapá. — Santos & Osborne 2018: 153, Guyana [Upper Berbice River]. — Osborne 2021: 56, Guyana [Upper Berbice and Potaro rivers].
WA; freshwater.