Macrobrachium jelskii
| Macrobrachium jelskii | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Caridea |
| Family: | Palaemonidae |
| Genus: | Macrobrachium |
| Species: | M. jelskii
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| Binomial name | |
| Macrobrachium jelskii (Miers, 1878)[1]
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Macrobrachium jelskii is a species of freshwater shrimp under the genus Macrobrachium. It is known as Agar river prawn[2] and is endemic to South America.[3] It is widely distributed in Brazilian water bodies.[4] This prawn is widely used as food, aquarium activity and fish bait which threatens its survival. It is confused with other sympatric species such as M. amazonicum and M. acanthurus where morphometric characteristic features such as size and the shape of the rostrum, the ratio of the carpus and chela, the ratio of the chela and carapace length and the shape of the carpus of the second pereiopod are used to differentiate M. jelskii.
References
- ^ Miers, E.J. (1878). On a collection of Crustacea, Decapoda and Isopoda, chiefly from South America, with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1877(IV): 653-679 [imprint 1877].
- ^ https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/260534-Macrobrachium-jelskii
- ^ Vera-Silva, A.L., Carvalho, F.L. & Mantelatto, F.L. (2017) Redescription of the freshwater shrimp Macrobrachium jelskii (Miers, 1877) (Caridea, Palaemonidae). Zootaxa, 4269 (1), 44–60. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4269.1.2.
- ^ Ana Luiza Vera-Silva, Fabrício L. Carvalho, Fernando L. Mantelatto, Distribution and Genetic Differentiation of Macrobrachium jelskii () (Natantia: Palaemonidae) in Brazil Reveal Evidence of Non-Natural Introduction and Cryptic Allopatric Speciation, Journal of Crustacean Biology, Volume 36, Issue 3, 1 May 2016, Pages 373–383, doi:10.1163/1937240X-00002425.