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Macrobrachium Bate 1868

Description

Macrobrachium Bate, 1868

Macrobrachium Bate, 1868: 363; Holthuis, 1952: 10; Chace, 1972: 19; Kensley & Walker, 1982: 3; Williams, 1984: 66; Chace & Bruce, 1993: 8; Bowles et al., 2000: 159.

Diagnosis. Rostrum with teeth on dorsal and ventral margins. Carapace with antennal and hepatic spines. Mandibular palp with 3 articles. Maxillipeds with exopods. Second pereopods much stronger and longer than first pereopods. Dactyli of pereopods 3 to 5 simple. Telson with 2 pairs of dorsal spines and 2 pairs of spines on the posterior margin.

Notes

Published as part of Ferreira, Rodrigo Simões, Vieira, Rony Roberto Ramos & D'Incao, Fernando, 2010, The marine and estuarine shrimps of the Palaemoninae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from Brazil, pp. 1-24 in Zootaxa 2606 on pages 7-8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.197695

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Bate
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Decapoda
Family
Palaemonidae
Genus
Macrobrachium
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Macrobrachium Bate, 1868 sec. Ferreira, Vieira & D'Incao, 2010

References

  • Bate, C. S. (1868) On a new genus, with four new species of freshwater prawns. Proceedings of the Zoological Society, 363 - 368.
  • Holthuis, L. B. (1952) A general revision of the Palaemonidae (Crustacea Decapoda Natantia) of the Americas. II. The subfamily Palaemoninae. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation, Los Angeles, 12, 1 - 395.
  • Chace, F. (1972) The shrimps of the Smithsonian Caribbean Expeditions with a summary of the west Indian shallowwaters species (Crustacea, Decapoda, Natantia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 98, 1 - 179.
  • Kensley, B. & Walker, I. (1982) Palaemonid shrimps from the Amazon Basin, Brazil (Crustacea: Decapoda: Natantia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, Washington, 362, 1 - 28.
  • Williams, A. B. (1984) Shrimps, lobsters and crabs of the Atlantic coast of the eastern United States, Maine to Florida. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 550 p.
  • Chace, F. & Bruce, A. (1993) The caridean shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907 - 1910, Part 6: Superfamily Palaemonoidea. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 543, 1 - 152.
  • Bowles, D. E., Aziz, K. & Knight, C. L. (2000) Macrobrachium (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae) in the contiguous United States: a review of the species and an assessment of threats to their survival. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 20, 158 - 171.