Genus Macrobrachium Spence Bate, 1868

Museums

Regional Maps

• Macrobrachium Spence Bate, C. 1868. On a new genus with 4 new species of freshwater prawns. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1868: 363-368 pl. 30-31 [363] [name placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology, see ICZN (1959); gender neuter].

  Type species:

   Macrobrachium americanum Bate, 1868 by subsequent designation, see Fowler, H.W. 1912. The Crustacea of New Jersey. Annual Report of the New Jersey State Museum 1911: 29-650, pls 1-150 [558].

  Secondary source:

   International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1959. Opinion 564. Suppression under the Plenary Powers of the scientific name squilla Linnaeus, 1758, as published in the combination Cancer squilla, and designation under the same Plenary Powers of Palaemon adspersus Rathke, 1837, to be the type species of the genus Palaemon Weber, 1795, and matters incidental thereto (Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda). Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 20: 337-358.
• Parapalaemon Ortmann, A.E. 1891. Die Decapoden-Krebse des Strassburger museums, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der von Herrn Dr. Döderlein bei Japan und bei den Liu-Kiu-Inseln gesammelten und z. Z. im Strassburger Museum aufbewahrten Formen, II: Versuch einer Revision der Gattungen Palaemon sens. strict. und Bithynis. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 5: 693-750 pl. 47 [696, 731] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Palaemon dolichodactylus Hilgendorf, 1879 by subsequent designation, see Holthuis, L.B. 1955. The recent genera of the caridean and stenopodidean shrimps (Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda, Supersection Natantia) with keys for their determination. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 26: 1-157 [53] (= Palaemon scabriculus Heller, 1862).
• Macroterocheir Stebbing, T.R.R. 1908. South African Crustacea, Pt IV. Annals of the South African Museum 6(1): 1-96 pls 1-15 [39] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Palaemon lepidactylus Hilgendorf, 1878 by monotypy.
• Eupalaemon Ortmann, A.E. 1891. Die Decapoden-Krebse des Strassburger museums, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der von Herrn Dr. Döderlein bei Japan und bei den Liu-Kiu-Inseln gesammelten und z. Z. im Strassburger Museum aufbewahrten Formen, II: Versuch einer Revision der Gattungen Palaemon sens. strict. und Bithynis. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 5: 693-750 pl. 47.

  Type species:

   Ortmann dolichodactylus Hilgendorf, 1879 ((junior subjective synonym of Palaemon scabriculus Heller, 1862a), designated by Holthuis, 1955b; gender masculine)) by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Holthuis, L.B. 1993. The Recent Genera of the Caridean and Stenopodidean Shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda). Alblasserdam : Ridderprint Offsetdrukkerij B.V. 328 pp. [109]
• De Grave, S. & Fransen, C.H.J.M. 2011. Carideorum Catalogus: The recent species of the Dendrobrachiate, Stenopodidean, Procarididean and Caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 85(9): 195-589, figs 1-59 [319]
• Ng, P.K.L., Eldredge, L.G. & Evenhuis, N.L. 2011. The names of decapod and stomatopod Crustacea from Tahiti, French Polynesia, established by Anthony Curtis in 1938 and 1944. Zootaxa 3099: 43-56 [45 (Table 1), 46]

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

PALAEMONIDAE: Macrobrachium australe Guérin-Méneville, 1838 — Short, J.W. 2004. A revision of Australian river prawns, Macrobrachium (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae). Hydrobiologia 525: 1-100 [18]

PALAEMONIDAE: Macrobrachium rosenbergii De Man, 1897 [misidentification of Macrobrachium spinipes (Schenkel, 1902), see entry for M. spinipes and Ng & Wowor (2011) for further details.] — Ng, P.K.L. & Wowor, D. 2011. On the nomenclature of the palaemonid names Palaemon spinipes Desmarest, 1817, Palaemon spinipes Schenkel, 1902, and Macrobrachium wallacei Wowor & Ng, 2008 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea). Zootaxa 2904: 66-68

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Pantropical and subtropical, occasionally temperate, adults mostly in fresh, less commonly in brackish water, rarely marine, many species with larval development requiring marine influence, juveniles and larvae of some species tolerate seawater.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Kanmantoo (KAN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Sturt Plateau (STU), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

General References

Chace, F.A., Jr & Bruce, A.J. 1993. The Caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907–1910, Part 6: Superfamily Palaemonoidea. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 543: 1-152 [8] (world checklist)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Feb-2023	PALAEMONIDAE Rafinesque, 1815	04-Feb-2023	MODIFIED
17-Nov-2022	Macrobrachium Spence Bate, 1868	25-Jan-2023	MODIFIED
10-May-2022	DECAPODA Latreille, 1802	04-Feb-2023	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2020	DECAPODA Latreille, 1802	04-Feb-2023	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019	DECAPODA Latreille, 1802	04-Feb-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Shane Ahyong
22-Dec-2016	DECAPODA Latreille, 1803	04-Feb-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Shane Ahyong
22-Jul-2013		04-Feb-2023	MODIFIED
10-May-2012		04-Feb-2023	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)