Species Macrobrachium lar (Fabricius, 1798)
Giant Jungle Prawn (Aust), Monkey River Shrimp (Fao)
- Palaemon lar Fabricius, J.C. 1798. Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae. Hafniae : Proft et Storch ii 573 pp. [402].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH, 'in India Dom. Daldorff' [probably from Tranquebar, SE India]; BMNH (probably syntypes, if still extant, see Zimsen, E. 1964. Crustacea. pp. 643–656 in, The Type Material of I.C. Fabricius. Copenhagen : Munksgaard), 'in India Dom. Daldorff' [probably from Tranquebar, SE India]. - Palaemon ornatus Olivier, A.G. 1811. Palémon. pp. 652-667 in Olivier, A.G. (ed.). Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle. Insectes. Paris : H. Agasse Vol. 8 722 pp. [660].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MNHP, Australia (as New-Holland). - Palaemon tridens White, A. 1847. List of the Specimens of Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum viii 143 pp. [Date published Apr/1847] [78] [nom. nud.].
Type data:
Status unknown, BMNH, Mauritius?. - Palaemon vagus Heller, C. 1862. Beiträge zur näheren kenntnis der Macrouren. Sitzungsberichte der Mathematischen-Physikalischen Klasse der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 45(1): 389-426, 2 pls [417 pl. 2 figs 42, 43].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (museum not determined), Amboina [Ambon], Indonesia. - Palaemon spectabilis Heller, C. 1862. Neue Crustaceen, gesammelt während der Weltumseglung der k.k. Fregatte Novarra: Zweiter vorläufiger Bericht. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12: 519-528 [527].
Type data:
Status unknown, ZMB (presumed museum of deposition), Tahiti. - Palaemon ruber Hess, W. 1865. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Decapoden-Krebse Ost-Australiens. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 31: 127-173 pls 6-7 [165 pl. 7 fig. 20].
Type data:
Status unknown, ZMG (presumed lost, not present in the Hess collection transferred to SMF), Fiji Islands. - Palaemon mayottensis Hoffmann, C.K. 1874. Crustacés et Echinodermes de Madagascar et de l'île de la Réunion. i-xvii, i-xxxi, ix-xvi, 1-58 pls 1-10 in Pollen, F.P.L. & Van Dam, D.C. (eds). Recherches sur la Fauna de Madagascar et de ses dépendances, part 5. Leiden : E.J. Brill. [32 pl. 9 figs 61, 62].
Type data:
Syntype(s) RMNH D1081 9 specimens, Comoros, Mayotte Island, NW of Madagascar. - Palaemon reunionnensis Hoffmann, C.K. 1874. Crustacés et Echinodermes de Madagascar et de l'île de la Réunion. i-xvii, i-xxxi, ix-xvi, 1-58 pls 1-10 in Pollen, F.P.L. & Van Dam, D.C. (eds). Recherches sur la Fauna de Madagascar et de ses dépendances, part 5. Leiden : E.J. Brill. [33 pl. 9 figs 66, 67].
Type data:
Syntype(s) RMNH D1503 11 specimens (in the old catalogue a lot 'RMNH D1096' is present, and has the same data as RMNH D1503, possibly RMNH D1096 was incorporated into lot RMNH D1503), Indian Ocean, Réunion. - Palaemon madagascariensis Hoffmann, C.K. 1874. Crustacés et Echinodermes de Madagascar et de l'île de la Réunion. i-xvii, i-xxxi, ix-xvi, 1-58 pls 1-10 in Pollen, F.P.L. & Van Dam, D.C. (eds). Recherches sur la Fauna de Madagascar et de ses dépendances, part 5. Leiden : E.J. Brill. [35 pl. 7 fig. 58].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (museum not determined), Nosy Fali, NW Madagascar. - Leander dionyx Nobili, G. 1905. Decapodi e Isopodi della Nuova Guinea Tedesca, racolti dal Sign. L. Biro. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 3: 480-507 figs 1, 2 pls 12, 13 [482 pl. 12 fig. 2].
Type data:
Holotype HNHM (lost), Bogadjim [Stephansort], Papua New Guinea
Comment: see Forró, L. & Müller, P. 1985. An annotated list of Decapoda material collected by L. BIRO in New Guinea. Miscellanea Zoologica Hungarica 3: 77–80.Type locality references:
Forró, L. & Müller, P. 1985. An annotated list of Decapoda material collected by L. BIRO in New Guinea. Miscellanea Zoologica Hungarica 3: 77-80.
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 [30]
- 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 [325-326]
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-west Pacific Oceans.
IBRA
NT, Qld: Central Arnhem (CA), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Wet Tropics (WT)
Other Regions
Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater
Distribution References
Ecological Descriptors
Freshwater.
Extra Ecological Information
Adults in seasonally torrential, rainforest streams.
General References
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 [176]
Short, J.W. 2000. Freshwater and terrestrial Crustacea. pp. 58–67 in, Wildlife of Tropical North Queensland. Queensland Museum : South Brisbane. 368 pp. [64] (colour photograph)
Short, J.W. 2004. A revision of Australian river prawns, Macrobrachium (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae). Hydrobiologia 525: 1-100 [75] (new records)
Short, J.W. & Meek, P. 2000. New records of Macrobrachium (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Christmas Island, Indian Ocean. Records of the Western Australian Museum 20: 81-86 [82] (diagnosis and new record)
History of changes
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