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Macrobrachium

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Macrobrachium
Macrobrachium rosenbergii, the giant freshwater prawn, a commercially important species
Macrobrachium latidactylus, scissor river prawn from the Philippines
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Caridea
Family: Palaemonidae
Genus: Macrobrachium
Spence Bate, 1868
Type species
Macrobrachium americanum
Bate, 1868 [1]

Macrobrachium is a genus of freshwater prawns or shrimps characterised by the extreme enlargement of the second pair of pereiopods, at least in the male.[2]

Large dams, which inhibit reproduction and migration of Macrobrachium species, have been implicated in the spread of schistosomiasis, a disease caused by flatworms carried by snails. As these prawns are predators of the snails, damming has caused marked increases in schistosomiasis in humans around dammed areas and studies suggest that restoration of Macrobrachium populations could benefit around 300 million people, one third to one half of the at-risk population.[3]

Species

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It contains these species:[4][5][6]

References

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  1. ^ J. W. Short (2004). "A revision of Australian river prawns, Macrobrachium (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae)". Hydrobiologia. 525 (1–3): 1–100. doi:10.1023/B:HYDR.0000038871.50730.95.
  2. ^ Charles Spence Bate (1868). "On a new Genus, with four new Species, of Freshwater Prawns". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 363–368.
  3. ^ Sokolow, Susanne H.; Jones, Isabel J.; Jocque, Merlijn; La, Diana; Cords, Olivia; Knight, Anika; Lund, Andrea; Wood, Chelsea L.; Lafferty, Kevin D.; Hoover, Christopher M.; Collender, Phillip A.; Remais, Justin V.; Lopez-Carr, David; Fisk, Jonathan; Kuris, Armand M.; De Leo, Giulio A. (2017-04-24). "Nearly 400 million people are at higher risk of schistosomiasis because dams block the migration of snail-eating river prawns". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 372 (1722) 20160127. The Royal Society. doi:10.1098/rstb.2016.0127. ISSN 0962-8436. PMC 5413875. Retrieved 2025-10-14.
  4. ^ "Macrobrachium". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
  5. ^ Charles Fransen (2012). "Macrobrachium Spence Bate, 1868a". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved February 11, 2012.
  6. ^ Saengphan, Nukul; Panijpan, Bhinyo; Senapin, Saengchan; Suksomnit, Auaree; Phiwsaiya, Kornsunee (2020-10-29). "Morphology and molecular phylogeny of Macrobrachium saengphani sp. nov. (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Northern Thailand". Zootaxa. 4868 (4): 531–542. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4868.4.4. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 33311381.
  7. ^ a b c d Luis M. Mejía-Ortíz & Marilú López-Mejía (2011). "Freshwater prawns of the genus Macrobrachium (Decapoda, Palaemonidae) with abbreviated development from the Papaloapan River Basin, Veracruz, Mexico: distribution and new species". Crustaceana. 84 (8): 949–973. doi:10.1163/001121611X579754.
  8. ^ Antonina dos Santos, Liliam Hayd & Klaus Anger (2013). "A new species of Macrobrachium Spence Bate, 1868 (Decapoda, Palaemonidae) M. pantanalense, from the Pantanal, Brazil". Zootaxa. 3700 (4): 534–546. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3700.4.2. PMID 26106741.
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  • Data related to Macrobrachium at Wikispecies
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