Species Macrobrachium equidens (Dana, 1852)
- Palaemon equidens Dana, J.D. 1852. Conspectus Crustaceorum quae in Orbis Terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes e classe Reipublicae Foederatae Duce, lexit et descripsit. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 6: 10-28 [26].
Type data:
Holotype MZUT Cr.957, Singapore.
Paratype(s) MZUT Cr.964. - Palaemon sundaicus bataviana de Man, J.G. 1897. Bericht über die von herrn Schiffscapitän Storm zu Atjeh, an den westlichen Küsten von Malakka, Bornio und Celebes sowie in der Java-See gesammelten Decapoden und Stomatopoden (Part 5). Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 9: 725-788 figs 60-73 [784].
Type data:
Syntype(s) RMNH D2433 3 ovigerous ♀, Indonesia, Java, river near Batavia [Jakarta]. - Palaemon (Eupalaemon) acanthosoma Nobili, G. 1899. Contribuzioni alla conoscenza della fauna carcinologica della Papuasia, delle Molucche e dell' Australia. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 20: 230-282, 358, 473-523 [242].
Type data:
Holotype MCG ♂ (presumed museum of deposition), 'Katau' [?Binaturi River, near Fly River], Papua New Guinea. - Palaemon (Eupalaemon) sundaicus brachydactyla Nobili, G. 1899. Contribuzioni alla conoscenza della fauna carcinologica della Papuasia, delle Molucche e dell' Australia. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 20: 230-282, 358, 473-523 [238].
Type data:
Holotype MCG ♂ (presumed museum of deposition), Amboina [Ambon], Indonesia. - Palaemon sundaicus demani Nobili, G. 1899. Contribuzioni alla conoscenza della fauna carcinologica della Papuasia, delle Molucche e dell' Australia. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 20: 230-282, 358, 473-523.
- Palaemon (Eupalaemon) nasutus Nobili, G. 1903. Crostacei di Singapore. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Università di Torino 18(455): 1-39 1 pl. [9].
Type data:
Status unknown, MSNT, Singapore. - Palaemon delagoae Stebbing, T.R.R. 1915. South African Crustacea (Part VIII). Annals of the South African Museum 15: 57-104 pls 8-25 [74 pl. 80].
Type data:
Holotype SAM A2196 1 specimen, Delagoa Bay. - Urocaridella borradailei Stebbing, T.R.R. 1923. Crustacea of Natal. Report of the Fisheries and Marine Biological Survey of South Afrrica 3(3): 1-16 pls 10-16 [8].
Type data:
Status unknown, SAM, Mhlatuze River, Natal, South Africa. - Palaemon sundaicus var. De Mani Nobili, G. 1899. Contribuzioni alla conoscenza della fauna carcinologica della Papuasia, delle Molucche e dell' Australia. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 20: 230-282, 358, 473-523 [239].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- 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 [25]
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-Pacific Region (South Africa, southern India to Fukien Province, China, Philippines, Indonesia, and Palau islands eastward to New Britain and the Solomon Islands).
IBRA
NT, Qld, WA: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Estuary.
Extra Ecological Information
High salinity brackish and salt water, rarely into freshwater.
General References
Bruce, A.J. & Coombes, K.E. 1997. An annotated check-list of the Caridean Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Darwin Harbour, with descriptions of three new species of Periclimenes [Palaemonidae: Pontoniinae]. pp. 301-337 in Hanley, H.R., Caswell, G., Megirian, D. & Larson, H.K. (eds). The Marine Flora and Fauna of Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory, Australia. Proceedings of the Sixth International Marine Biology Workshop. Darwin : Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory 466 pp. [302] (first Australian record)
Johnson, D.S. 1973. Notes on some species of the genus Macrobrachium (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae). Journal of the Singapore National Academy of Science 3(3): 273-291 [283] (considered that all records from East Africa and Madagascar belong instead to M. rude (Heller, 1862))
Powell, G.B. 1987. Occurrence of the Indo-Pacific prawn Macrobrachium equidens in west Africa (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae). Revue d'Hydrobiologie Tropicale 19(2): 75-79 [75] (appears to have been introduced into West Africa)
History of changes
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