Macrobrachium scabriculum
| Macrobrachium scabriculum | |
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| From Kerala, India. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Caridea |
| Family: | Palaemonidae |
| Genus: | Macrobrachium |
| Species: | M. scabriculum
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| Binomial name | |
| Macrobrachium scabriculum Heller, 1862
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Macrobrachium scabriculum is a species of freshwater shrimp. It is distributed in countries and territories around the Indian Ocean (East Africa, Madagascar, South Asia, Sumatra).[1] It is known as Goda River prawn.[2][3] The total length of male prawns become about 6.5 cm long and in females it is about 5 cm. A kind of fur develop on the chelipeds of males. Eggs produced by M. scabriculum are smaller in size, brownish in color, elliptical or oval in shape[4] and hatched larvae undergone migration to low saline water for completion its life cycle.[5]
Macrobrachium scabriculum inhabit fresh and brackish water of larger rivers and streams.[1]
References
- ^ a b c De Grave, S.; Wowor, D.; Cai, Y. (2019) [errata version of 2013 assessment]. "Macrobrachium scabriculum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T197655A147785351. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T197655A147785351.en. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
- ^ "Macrobrachium scabriculum". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
- ^ "ADW: Macrobrachium scabriculum: CLASSIFICATION". animaldiversity.org.
- ^ Jalihal, D. R.; Shenoy, S.; Sankolli, K. N. (1988). "Freshwater prawns of the genus Macrobrachium Bate, 1868 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae) from Karnataka, India" (PDF). Records of the Zoological Survey of India. Occasional Paper. 112: 1–74.
- ^ "Macrobrachium scabriculum". Aquarium Glaser GmbH. December 18, 2017.