Species Macrobrachium australiense Holthuis, 1950

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• Macrobrachium australiense Holthuis, L.B. 1950. The Decapoda of the Siboga Expedition. Part X. The Palaemonidae collected by the Siboga and Snellius expeditions, with remarks on other species, Part I: Subfamily Palaemoninae. Siboga-Expéditie Report 39(a9): 1-268 figs 1-52 [13, 174] [nom. nov. for Palaemon australis Ortmann, 1891].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMA.
• Macrobrachium atactum atactum Riek, E.F. 1951. The Australian freshwater prawns of the family Palaemonidae. Records of the Australian Museum 22(4): 358-367 [360, 364 fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P12007 ♂, Mary River at Conondale, QLD.
  Paratype(s) AM P12008 ♀ (as allotype); AM P12009 10 specimens.
• Macrobrachium atactum ischnomorphum Riek, E.F. 1951. The Australian freshwater prawns of the family Palaemonidae. Records of the Australian Museum 22(4): 358-367 [360, 364 fig. 6].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P11995 ♂, Elimbah Creek, Elimbah, QLD.
  Paratype(s) AM P11996 ♀ (as allotype); AM P11997 9 specimens.
• Macrobrachium atactum sobrinum Riek, E.F. 1951. The Australian freshwater prawns of the family Palaemonidae. Records of the Australian Museum 22(4): 358-367 [360, 364 fig. 7].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P11998 ♂, Muttaburra, QLD.
  Paratype(s) AM P11999 ♀ (as allotype); AM P12000 67 specimens.
• Macrobrachium adscitum adscitum Riek, E.F. 1951. The Australian freshwater prawns of the family Palaemonidae. Records of the Australian Museum 22(4): 358-367 [360, 363 fig. 3].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P3095 ♂, Accommodation Creek, near Ballandean (SE QLD).
  Paratype(s) AM P39623 ♀ (as allotype); AM P39624 41 specimen.
• Macrobrachium australiense crassum Riek, E.F. 1951. The Australian freshwater prawns of the family Palaemonidae. Records of the Australian Museum 22(4): 358-367 [366 fig. 11].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P12010 ♂, Cairns, QLD.
  Paratype(s) AM P12011 ♀ (as allotype); AM P12012 2 specimens.
• Macrobrachium australiense cristatum Riek, E.F. 1951. The Australian freshwater prawns of the family Palaemonidae. Records of the Australian Museum 22(4): 358-367 [360, 366 fig. 9].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P12004 ♂, Pallal, Horton River, near Bingara, NSW.
  Paratype(s) AM P12005 ♀ (as allotype); AM P12006.
• Macrobrachium australiense eupharum Riek, E.F. 1951. The Australian freshwater prawns of the family Palaemonidae. Records of the Australian Museum 22(4): 358-367 [360, 365 fig. 8].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P12001 ♂, Burdekin River, Macrossan, QLD.
  Paratype(s) AM P12002 ♀ (as allotype); AM P12003.
• Palaemon australis 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 [709] [junior homonym of Palaemon australis Guérin-Méneville, 1838, = M. australe].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MS, Rockhampton, Peak Downs and Gayndah, QLD.

 

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. [295]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater.

 

General References

Short, J.W. 2000. Freshwater and terrestrial Crustacea. pp. 58–67 in, Wildlife of Tropical North Queensland. Queensland Museum : South Brisbane. 368 pp. [63] (colour picture)

Short, J.W. 2004. A revision of Australian river prawns, Macrobrachium (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae). Hydrobiologia 525: 1-100 [51]

 

History of changes

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