Species Macrobrachium spinipes (Schenkel, 1902)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Palaemon spinipes Schenkel, E. 1902. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Dekapodenfauna von Celebes. Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 13: 485-585 pls 7-13.

  Type data:

   Holotype NHMB 10 a ♂, Kema, North Sulawesi (Celebs) Province, Indonesia.
• Macrobrachium wallacei Wowor, D. & Ng, P. K. L. 2008. Case 3428. Palaemon rosenbergii De Man, 1879 (currently Macrobrachium rosenbergii; Crustacea, Decapoda): proposed conservation of usage by designation of a neotype. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 67: 258-260.

  Type data:

   Holotype RMNH D28730 ♂, Laloki River ca. 30 miles from Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

Generic Combinations

• Macrobrachium spinipes (Schenkel, 1902). —
  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 [67] (new combination)

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Macrobrachium rosenbergii non De Man, 1879 [a misidentification]. —
  Short, J.W. 2004. A revision of Australian river prawns, Macrobrachium (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae). Hydrobiologia 525: 1-100 [44-51]

Introduction

This species was referred to as a single widespread Indo-Pacific species Macrobrachium rosenbergii (De Man, 1879) prior to 2011. However recognition of there being two forms led ultimately to M. rosenbergii being split into two separate species, one distributed from central-west Indonesia through Indochina and South Asia which has retained the name Macrobrachium rosenbergii (De Man, 1879), and the second distributed from eastern Indonesia, Philippines, New Guinea and Australia which has been referred to Macrobrachium spinipes (Schenkel, 1902). Ng & Wowor (2011) explain the history and reasons for the name change which are nomenclaturally complex, but are now resolved with the Australian form as M. spinipes. Short (2004) and Wowor & Ng (2007) both discuss the Australian species, as "M. rosenbergii". Short (2004) gives an extensive assessment of the species in Australia, while Wowor & Ng (2007) provides extralimital distribution data.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Catadromous, estuary.

General References

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

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

Wowor, D. & Ng, P.K.L. 2007. The giant freshwater prawns of the Machrobrachium rosenbergii species group (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55(2): 321-336

History of changes