Species Macrobrachium handschini (J. Roux, 1933)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Palaemon (Macrobrachium) handschini Roux, J. 1933. Note sur quelques Crustacés décapodes d'eau douce provenant de l'Australie Septentrionale. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 40: 343-348 [345].

  Type data:

   Lectotype whereabouts unknown ♂ (museum not determined), Katherine River, N Australia.
  Paralectotype(s) NHMB 1 juvenile 4♂; NTM 1♂.
• Macrobrachium glypticum Riek, E.F. 1951. The Australian freshwater prawns of the family Palaemonidae. Records of the Australian Museum 22(4): 358-367 [363 fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P11992 ♂, Coen, N QLD.
  Paratype(s) AM P11993 ♀ (as allotype); AM P11994 3 specimens.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• J.W. Short in Davie, P. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Phyllocarida, Hoplocarida, Eucarida (Part 1). In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.H. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.3A. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xii 551 pp. [296]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Papua New Guinea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Jul-2013		11-Mar-2015	MODIFIED
10-May-2012		10-May-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)