WoRMS taxon details
Macrobrachium Spence Bate, 1868
156892 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156892)
accepted
Genus
Macrobrachium americanum Spence Bate, 1868 (type by subsequent designation)
Allobrachium Jayachandran, 2001 · unaccepted (unavailable name under Art. 13.3)
Bithynis Philippi, 1860 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Bithynops Holthuis, 1973 · unaccepted
Cryphiops Dana, 1852 · unaccepted
Cryphiops (Bithynops) Holthuis, 1973 · unaccepted
Cryphiops (Cryphiops) Dana, 1852 · unaccepted
Eupalaemon Ortmann, 1891 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Macroterocheir Stebbing, 1908 · unaccepted
Palaemon (Eupalaemon) Ortmann, 1891 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Palaemon (Macrobrachium) · unaccepted (status change)
Palaemon (Parapalaemon) Ortmann, 1891 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Parapalaemon Ortmann, 1891 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Macrobrachium acanthurus (Wiegmann, 1836)
- Species Macrobrachium amazonicum (Heller, 1862)
- Species Macrobrachium carcinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species Macrobrachium dux (Lenz, 1910)
- Species Macrobrachium equidens (Dana, 1852)
- Species Macrobrachium grandimanus (Randall, 1840)
- Species Macrobrachium jelskii (Miers, 1878)
- Species Macrobrachium lantau Chow, Chan & Tsang, 2022
- Species Macrobrachium macrobrachion (Herklots, 1851)
- Species Macrobrachium nipponense (De Haan, 1849)
- Species Macrobrachium olfersii (Wiegmann, 1836)
- Species Macrobrachium rosenbergii (De Man, 1879)
- Species Macrobrachium surinamicum Holthuis, 1948
- Species Macrobrachium vollenhovenii (Herklots, 1857)
- Species Macrobrachium xmas Fujita, Davie & Ng, 2015
- Species Macrobrachium intermedium (Stimpson, 1860) accepted as Palaemon intermedius (Stimpson, 1860) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Macrobrachium mirabile (Kemp, 1917) accepted as Arachnochium mirabile (Kemp, 1917) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Bate, C.S. (1868). On a new genus, with four new species, of freshwater prawns. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1868: 363–368, pls. XXX–XXXI. [details] 
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Macrobrachium Spence Bate, 1868. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156892 on 2025-04-05
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Nomenclature
original description
Bate, C.S. (1868). On a new genus, with four new species, of freshwater prawns. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1868: 363–368, pls. XXX–XXXI. [details]
original description (of Cryphiops Dana, 1852) Dana, J. D. (1852). Conspectus crustaceorum, &c. Conspectus of the Crustacea of the exploring expedition under Capt. C. Wilkes, U.S.N. Macroura. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 6: 10-28., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1779609 [details]
original description (of Bithynis Philippi, 1860) Philippi, R.A. (1860). Bithynis, ein neues Genus der langschwänzigen Krebse. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 26: 161-164. [details]
original description (of Bithynops Holthuis, 1973) Holthuis, L.B. (1973). Bithynops luscus, a new genus and species of cavernicolous shrimp from Mexico (Crustacea Decapoda, Palaemonidae). Quaderno del Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. 171: 135-142. [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Parapalaemon Ortmann, 1891) Ortmann, A. (1891). Die Decapoden-Krebse des Strassburger Museums, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung dr von Herrn Dr. Döderlein bei Japan und bei den Liu-Kiu-Inseln gesammelten und z. Z. im Strassburger Museum aufbewahrten Formen. II. Theil. Versuch einer Revision der Gattungen Palaemon sens. strict. und Bithynis. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abtheilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere. 5: 693-750, pl. 47. [details]
original description (of Macroterocheir Stebbing, 1908) Stebbing, T.R.R. (1908). South African Crustacea. Part IV. Annals of the South African Museum. 6: 1-96, pls. 1-15. [details]
original description (of Eupalaemon Ortmann, 1891) Ortmann, A. (1891). Die Decapoden-Krebse des Strassburger Museums, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung dr von Herrn Dr. Döderlein bei Japan und bei den Liu-Kiu-Inseln gesammelten und z. Z. im Strassburger Museum aufbewahrten Formen. II. Theil. Versuch einer Revision der Gattungen Palaemon sens. strict. und Bithynis. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abtheilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere. 5: 693-750, pl. 47. [details]
original description (of Allobrachium Jayachandran, 2001) Jayachandran, K.V., 2001. Palaemonid prawns. Biodiversity, Taxonomy, Biology and Management: 1-624. Science Publishers, Inc., Enfield. [details]
basis of record De Grave, S.; Fransen, C.H.J.M. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden. 85(9): 195-589. (look up in IMIS) [details]
original description (of Cryphiops Dana, 1852) Dana, J. D. (1852). Conspectus crustaceorum, &c. Conspectus of the Crustacea of the exploring expedition under Capt. C. Wilkes, U.S.N. Macroura. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 6: 10-28., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1779609 [details]
original description (of Bithynis Philippi, 1860) Philippi, R.A. (1860). Bithynis, ein neues Genus der langschwänzigen Krebse. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 26: 161-164. [details]
original description (of Bithynops Holthuis, 1973) Holthuis, L.B. (1973). Bithynops luscus, a new genus and species of cavernicolous shrimp from Mexico (Crustacea Decapoda, Palaemonidae). Quaderno del Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. 171: 135-142. [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Parapalaemon Ortmann, 1891) Ortmann, A. (1891). Die Decapoden-Krebse des Strassburger Museums, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung dr von Herrn Dr. Döderlein bei Japan und bei den Liu-Kiu-Inseln gesammelten und z. Z. im Strassburger Museum aufbewahrten Formen. II. Theil. Versuch einer Revision der Gattungen Palaemon sens. strict. und Bithynis. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abtheilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere. 5: 693-750, pl. 47. [details]
original description (of Macroterocheir Stebbing, 1908) Stebbing, T.R.R. (1908). South African Crustacea. Part IV. Annals of the South African Museum. 6: 1-96, pls. 1-15. [details]
original description (of Eupalaemon Ortmann, 1891) Ortmann, A. (1891). Die Decapoden-Krebse des Strassburger Museums, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung dr von Herrn Dr. Döderlein bei Japan und bei den Liu-Kiu-Inseln gesammelten und z. Z. im Strassburger Museum aufbewahrten Formen. II. Theil. Versuch einer Revision der Gattungen Palaemon sens. strict. und Bithynis. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abtheilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere. 5: 693-750, pl. 47. [details]
original description (of Allobrachium Jayachandran, 2001) Jayachandran, K.V., 2001. Palaemonid prawns. Biodiversity, Taxonomy, Biology and Management: 1-624. Science Publishers, Inc., Enfield. [details]
basis of record De Grave, S.; Fransen, C.H.J.M. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden. 85(9): 195-589. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
- Unreviewed
- North Atlantic Ocean
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | テナガエビ属 | [details] |