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Issue: Vol. 3734 No. 1: 4 Nov. 2013
Type: Article
Published: 2013-11-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3734.1.5
Page range: 45–55
Abstract views: 57
PDF downloaded: 3

A new record of the giant freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium spinipes (Schenkel, 1902) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Taiwan, with notes on its taxonomy

Department of Aquaculture, National Penghu University, Penghu 880, Taiwan
Division of Zoology, Research Center for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Jalan Raya Jakarta Bogor Km 46, Cibinong 16911, Indonesia
Tropical Marine Science Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119260, Republic of Singapore
Crustacea Caridea Macrobrachium spinipes new record Taiwan

Abstract

The giant freshwater prawn Macrobrachium spinipes (Schenkel, 1902) is recorded from Taiwan for the first time and extends the distribution of the species to north of the Tropic of Cancer. The Taiwanese specimens differ slightly from material from Indonesian Papua in the density of the spination of the adult second pereipods, the relative length of the ridge of the posterior submedian plate of thoracite sternite 4, and the color of the carapace, abdomen and pleural condyles.