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Macrobrachium

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Macrobrachium

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Many species are commercially valuable, especially the larger ones such as those in the Macrobrachium rosenbergii group.[1] This genus occurs across tropical freshwater and estuarine habitats on every continent.[2]

Scientific classification

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. CladePancrustacea
  4. ClassMalacostraca
  5. OrderDecapoda
  6. SuborderPleocyemata
  7. InfraorderCaridea
  8. FamilyPalaemonidae
  9. GenusMacrobrachium

Named by Spence Bate, 1868

Sources: Wikipedia taxobox: Macrobrachium (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Quick Facts

Type species
Macrobrachium americanum

Facts from the source article.

Key facts and history

The genus name Macrobrachium means "large arms".[3] Macrobrachium rosenbergii was originally described from Andai, New Guinea by De Man in 1879.[3] Aquaculture of Macrobrachium rosenbergii began in 1965, with escapes and releases recorded on all islands.[3] Despite widespread culture, the number of established populations outside the native range appears small.[3]

Dams inhibit the reproduction and migration of Macrobrachium species.[5] These prawns are voracious predators of snails, and damming has been linked to increased human schistosomiasis.[5] The taxonomic history of the genus is difficult due to morphological conservation and variation within species.[2] Approximately 300 million individuals could see benefits if Macrobrachium populations were restored, according to estimates.[6]

What the cited sources add

The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center notes that Macrobrachium rosenbergii is a caridean shrimp.[3] The same source reports that the native range extends from Sri Lanka to Indonesia and north to southern China.[3] Aquaculture expansion in the southern US has been slow due to low production and uncertain seed stock availability.[3] The Smithsonian account records no further records of this shrimp in the continental US.[3]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Macrobrachium" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Phylogeny of Macrobrachium spp. (Decapoda, Pleocyemata) from Peru based on mitochondrial and nuclear data reveals a species complex comprising M. digueti (Bouvier, 1895) and M. transandicum Holthuis, 1950", ZooKeys, 20 ; "crustaceans-shrimp", Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; "Macrobrachium rosenbergii Crustaceans-Shrimp giant Malaysian prawn, giant river en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Macrobrachium" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Charles Spence Bate, "On a new Genus, with four new Species, of Freshwater Prawns", Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1868, p. 363–368; Bowles D, Aziz K, Knight C (2000) Macrobrachium (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemoni- dae) in the contiguous United States: A review of the species and an assessment o; "Phylogeny of Macrobrachium spp. (Decapoda, Pleocyemata) from Peru based on mitochondrial and nuclear data reveals a species complex comprising M. digueti (Bouvier, 1895) and M. transandicum Holthuis, 1950", ZooKeys, 20 ; "Geometri en.wikipedia.org
  3. "Macrobrachium rosenbergii Crustaceans-Shrimp giant Malaysian prawn, giant river prawn", Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. facts only, no text reused. invasions.si.edu
  4. Wikipedia, "Macrobrachium" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Predation and control of laboratory populations of the snail Biomphalaria glabrata by the freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii", Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology, 19 April 1990, p. 401-412; "Regulation of laboratory populations of snails (Biomphalaria and Bulinus spp.) by river prawns, Macrobrachium spp. (Decapoda, Palaemonidae): Implications for control of schistosomiasis", Acta Tropica, April 2014, p. 64- (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Macrobrachium" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Sokolow, "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, 2017-04-24 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Macrobrachium (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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