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Macrobrachium Spence Bate, 1868

Macrobrachium sp.

AphiaID

156892 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156892)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Macrobrachium americanum Spence Bate, 1868 (type by subsequent designation)

Parent

Palaemonidae Rafinesque, 1815

Orig. name

Macrobrachium Spence Bate, 1868

Synonymised names

Allobrachium Jayachandran, 2001 · unaccepted (unavailable name under Art. 13.3)

Eupalaemon Ortmann, 1891 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Macroterocheir Stebbing, 1908 · unaccepted

Palaemon (Eupalaemon) Ortmann, 1891 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Palaemon (Macrobrachium) · unaccepted (status change)

Palaemon (Parapalaemon) Ortmann, 1891 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Parapalaemon Ortmann, 1891 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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Species Macrobrachium acanthurus (Wiegmann, 1836)
Species Macrobrachium amazonicum (Heller, 1862)
Species Macrobrachium carcinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Macrobrachium dux (Lenz, 1910)
Species Macrobrachium equidens (Dana, 1852)
Species Macrobrachium grandimanus (Randall, 1840)
Species Macrobrachium jelskii (Miers, 1878)
Species Macrobrachium lantau Chow, Chan & Tsang, 2022
Species Macrobrachium macrobrachion (Herklots, 1851)
Species Macrobrachium nipponense (De Haan, 1849)
Species Macrobrachium olfersii (Wiegmann, 1836)
Species Macrobrachium rosenbergii (De Man, 1879)
Species Macrobrachium surinamicum Holthuis, 1948
Species Macrobrachium vollenhovenii (Herklots, 1857)
Species Macrobrachium xmas Fujita, Davie & Ng, 2015
Species Macrobrachium intermedium (Stimpson, 1860) accepted as Palaemon intermedius (Stimpson, 1860) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Macrobrachium mirabile (Kemp, 1917) accepted as Arachnochium mirabile (Kemp, 1917) (unaccepted > superseded combination)

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Bate, C.S. (1868). On a new genus, with four new species, of freshwater prawns. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1868: 363–368, pls. XXX–XXXI. [details]

Taxonomic citation

DecaNet eds. (2024). DecaNet. Macrobrachium Spence Bate, 1868. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156892 on 2024-06-13

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-05-20 12:11:22Z

created

Claus, Simon

2006-04-28 12:27:36Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2011-11-10 06:49:49Z

changed

Fransen, Charles

2011-11-10 08:54:32Z

changed

Fransen, Charles

2016-08-27 15:08:38Z

changed

De Grave, Sammy

2019-08-05 09:45:00Z

changed

De Grave, Sammy

Licensing

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original description Bate, C.S. (1868). On a new genus, with four new species, of freshwater prawns. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1868: 363–368, pls. XXX–XXXI. [details]

original description (of Eupalaemon Ortmann, 1891) Ortmann, A. (1891). Die Decapoden-Krebse des Strassburger Museums, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung dr von Herrn Dr. Döderlein bei Japan und bei den Liu-Kiu-Inseln gesammelten und z. Z. im Strassburger Museum aufbewahrten Formen. II. Theil. Versuch einer Revision der Gattungen Palaemon sens. strict. und Bithynis. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abtheilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere. 5: 693-750, pl. 47. [details]

original description (of Parapalaemon Ortmann, 1891) Ortmann, A. (1891). Die Decapoden-Krebse des Strassburger Museums, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung dr von Herrn Dr. Döderlein bei Japan und bei den Liu-Kiu-Inseln gesammelten und z. Z. im Strassburger Museum aufbewahrten Formen. II. Theil. Versuch einer Revision der Gattungen Palaemon sens. strict. und Bithynis. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abtheilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere. 5: 693-750, pl. 47. [details]

original description (of Macroterocheir Stebbing, 1908) Stebbing, T.R.R. (1908). South African Crustacea. Part IV. Annals of the South African Museum. 6: 1-96, pls. 1-15. [details]

original description (of Allobrachium Jayachandran, 2001) Jayachandran, K.V., 2001. Palaemonid prawns. Biodiversity, Taxonomy, Biology and Management: 1-624. Science Publishers, Inc., Enfield. [details]

context source (PeRMS) Moscoso, V. (2012). Catálogo de crustáceos decápodos y estomatópodos del Perú. Boletín Instituto del Mar del Perú. 27(1-2): 8-207., available online at https://repositorio.imarpe.gob.pe/handle/20.500.12958/2190 [details]

basis of record De Grave, S.; Fransen, C.H.J.M. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden. 85(9): 195-589. (look up in IMIS) [details]