Macrobrachium

Macrobrachium is a genus of freshwater prawns or shrimps characterised by the extreme enlargement of the second pair of pereiopods, at least in the male.^[2]

Macrobrachium
Macrobrachium rosenbergii, the giant freshwater prawn, a commercially important species
Macrobrachium latidactylus, scissor river prawn from the Philippines
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Caridea
Family:	Palaemonidae
Genus:	Macrobrachium Spence Bate, 1868
Type species
Macrobrachium americanum Bate, 1868 [1]

Large dams, which inhibit reproduction and migration of Macrobrachium species, have been implicated in the spread of schistosomiasis, a disease caused by flatworms carried by snails. As these prawns are predators of the snails, damming has caused marked increases in schistosomiasis in humans around dammed areas and studies suggest that restoration of Macrobrachium populations could benefit around 300 million people, one third to one half of the at-risk population.^[3]

Species

It contains these species:^[4][5][6]

• Macrobrachium acanthochirus (F. Villalobos, 1967)
• Macrobrachium acanthurus (Wiegmann, 1836)
• Macrobrachium acherontium (Holthuis, 1977)
• Macrobrachium adscitum (Riek, 1951)
• Macrobrachium aemulum (Nobili, 1906)
• Macrobrachium agwi (Klotz, 2008)
• Macrobrachium ahkowi (Chong & Khoo, 1987)
• Macrobrachium altifrons (Henderson, 1893)
• Macrobrachium amazonicum (Heller, 1862)
• Macrobrachium americanum (Spence Bate, 1868)
• Macrobrachium amplimanus (Cai & Dai, 1999)
• Macrobrachium andamanicum (Tiwari, 1952)
• Macrobrachium aracamuni (Rodríguez, 1982)
• Macrobrachium asperulum (von Martens, 1868)
• Macrobrachium assamense (Tiwari, 1958)
• Macrobrachium atabapense (S. Pereira, 1986)
• Macrobrachium atactum (Riek, 1951)
• Macrobrachium auratum (Short, 2004)
• Macrobrachium australe (Guérin-Méneville, 1838)
• Macrobrachium australiense (Holthuis, 1950)
• Macrobrachium banjarae (Tiwari, 1958)
• Macrobrachium bariense (De Man, 1892)
• Macrobrachium birai (Lobão, Melo & Fernandes, 1986)
• Macrobrachium birmanicum (Schenkel, 1902)
• Macrobrachium bombajense (Almelkar & Sankolli, 2006)
• Macrobrachium borellii (Nobili, 1896)
• Macrobrachium brasiliense (Heller, 1862)
• Macrobrachium brevicarpum (Tan & Dong, 1996)
• Macrobrachium bullatum (Fincham, 1987)
• Macrobrachium cacharense (Tiwari, 1952)
• Macrobrachium caledonicum (Roux, 1926)
• Macrobrachium callirrhoe (De Man, 1898)
• Macrobrachium canarae (Tiwari, 1958)
• Macrobrachium carcinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Macrobrachium catonium (H. H. Hobbs III & H. H. Hobbs Jr., 1995)
• Macrobrachium cavernicola (Kemp, 1924)
• Macrobrachium chevalieri (Roux, 1935)
• Macrobrachium clymene (De Man, 1902)
• Macrobrachium cocoense (Abele & W. Kim, 1984)
• Macrobrachium cosolapaense Mejía-Ortíz & López-Mejía, 2011^[7]
• Macrobrachium cortezi Rodríguez, 1982
• Macrobrachium cowlesi Holthuis, 1950
• Macrobrachium crebrum Abele & W. Kim, 1989
• Macrobrachium crenulatum Holthuis, 1950
• Macrobrachium dalatense Nguyên, 2003
• Macrobrachium dayanum (Henderson, 1893)
• Macrobrachium denticulatum Ostrovski, Da Fonseca & Da Silva-Ferreira, 1996
• Macrobrachium depressimanum S. Pereira, 1993
• Macrobrachium dienbienphuense Đăng & B. Y. Nguyên, 1972
• Macrobrachium dierythrum S. Pereira, 1986
• Macrobrachium digitus Abele & W. Kim, 1989
• Macrobrachium digueti (Bouvier, 1895)
• Macrobrachium dolatum Cai, Naiyanetr & Ng, 2004
• Macrobrachium dolichodactylus (Hilgendorf, 1879)
• Macrobrachium duri Wowor & Ng, 2010
• Macrobrachium dux (Lenz, 1910)
• Macrobrachium edentatum Liang & Yan, 1986
• Macrobrachium elatum Jayachandran, 1987
• Macrobrachium elegantum Pan, Hou & S. Li, 2010
• Macrobrachium empulipke Wowor, 2010
• Macrobrachium equidens (Dana, 1852)
• Macrobrachium esculentum (Thallwitz, 1891)
• Macrobrachium faustinum (de Saussure, 1857)
• Macrobrachium felicinum Holthuis, 1949
• Macrobrachium ferreirai Kensley & Walker, 1982
• Macrobrachium feunteuni Keith & Vigneux, 2002
• Macrobrachium foai (Coutière, 1902)
• Macrobrachium forcipatum Ng, 1995
• Macrobrachium formosense Spence Bate, 1868
• Macrobrachium fukienense Liang & Yan, 1980
• Macrobrachium gallus Holthuis, 1952
• Macrobrachium gangeticum Spence Bate, 1868
• Macrobrachium glabrum Holthuis, 1995
• Macrobrachium gracilirostre (Miers, 1875)
• Macrobrachium grandimanus (Randall, 1840)
• Macrobrachium gua Chong, 1989
• Macrobrachium guangxiense Liang & Yan, 1981
• Macrobrachium gurudeve Jayachandran & Raji, 2005
• Macrobrachium hainanense (Parisi, 1919)
• Macrobrachium hancocki Holthuis, 1950
• Macrobrachium handschini (Roux, 1933)
• Macrobrachium hendersodayanum (Tiwari, 1952)
• Macrobrachium hendersoni (De Man, 1906)
• Macrobrachium heterochirus (Wiegmann, 1836)
• Macrobrachium heterorhynchos Guo & He, 2008
• Macrobrachium hildebrandti (Hilgendorf, 1893)
• Macrobrachium hirsutimanus (Tiwari, 1952)
• Macrobrachium hirtimanus (Olivier, 1811)
• Macrobrachium hobbsi Villalobos Hiriart & Natees Rodriguez, 1990
• Macrobrachium holthuisi Genofre & Lobão, 1978
• Macrobrachium horstii (De Man, 1892)
• Macrobrachium idae (Heller, 1862)
• Macrobrachium idella (Hilgendorf, 1898)
• Macrobrachium iheringi (Ortmann, 1897)
• Macrobrachium inca Holthuis, 1950
• Macrobrachium indianum Pillai et al., 2015
• Macrobrachium indicum Jayachandran & Joseph, 1986
• Macrobrachium inflatum Liang & Yan, 1985
• Macrobrachium inpa Kensley & Walker, 1982
• Macrobrachium insulare (Parisi, 1919)
• Macrobrachium jacatepecense Mejía-Ortíz & López-Mejía, 2011^[7]
• Macrobrachium jacobsoni Holthuis, 1950
• Macrobrachium japonicum (De Haan, 1849)
• Macrobrachium jaroense (Cowles, 1914)
• Macrobrachium jayasreei Jayachandran & Raji, 2005
• Macrobrachium jelskii (Miers, 1877)
• Macrobrachium jiangxiense Liang & Yan, 1985
• Macrobrachium johnsoni Ravindranath, 1979
• Macrobrachium joppae Holthuis, 1950
• Macrobrachium kelianense Wowor & Short, 2007
• Macrobrachium kempi (Tiwari, 1949)
• Macrobrachium kistnense (Tiwari, 1952)
• Macrobrachium kiukianense (Yu, 1931)
• Macrobrachium koombooloomba Short, 2004
• Macrobrachium koreana De Kwon, 1984
• Macrobrachium kulkarnii Almelkar & Sankolli, 2006
• Macrobrachium kunjuramani Jayachandran & Raji, 2005
• Macrobrachium lamarrei H. Milne-Edwards, 1837
• Macrobrachium lanatum Cai & Ng, 2002
• Macrobrachium lanceifrons (Dana, 1852)
• Macrobrachium lanchesteri (De Man, 1911)
• Macrobrachium lantau (Chow, Chan & Tsang, 2022)
• Macrobrachium lar (Fabricius, 1798)
• Macrobrachium latidactylus (Thallwitz, 1891)
• Macrobrachium latimanus (von Martens, 1868)
• Macrobrachium lepidactyloides (De Man, 1892)
• Macrobrachium lepidactylus (Hilgendorf, 1879)
• †Macrobrachium leptodactylus (De Man, 1892)
• Macrobrachium leucodactylus Wowor & Choy, 2001
• Macrobrachium lingyunense J. Li, Cai & Clarke, 2006
• Macrobrachium lopopodus Wowor & Choy, 2001
• Macrobrachium lorentzi (Roux, 1921)
• Macrobrachium lucifugum Holthuis, 1974
• Macrobrachium lujae (De Man, 1912)
• Macrobrachium macrobrachion (Herklots, 1851)
• Macrobrachium maculatum Liang & Yan, 1980
• Macrobrachium madhusoodani Unnikrishnan, P. M. Pillai & Jayachandran, 2011
• Macrobrachium malayanum (Roux, 1935)
• Macrobrachium malcolmsonii (H. Milne-Edwards, 1844)
• Macrobrachium mammillodactylus (Thallwitz, 1892)
• Macrobrachium manipurense (Tiwari, 1952)
• Macrobrachium manningi Pereira & Lasso, 2007
• Macrobrachium mazatecum Mejía-Ortíz & López-Mejía, 2011^[7]
• Macrobrachium meridionale Liang & Yan, 1983
• Macrobrachium michoacanus Villalobos Hiriart & Nates Rodriguez, 1990
• Macrobrachium microps Holthuis, 1978
• Macrobrachium mieni Đăng, 1975
• Macrobrachium minutum (Roux, 1917)
• Macrobrachium miyakoense Komai & Fujita, 2005
• Macrobrachium moorei (Calman, 1899)
• Macrobrachium naso (Kemp, 1918)
• Macrobrachium nattereri (Heller, 1862)
• Macrobrachium natulorum Holthuis, 1984
• Macrobrachium neglectum (De Man, 1905)
• Macrobrachium nepalense Kamita, 1974
• Macrobrachium niloticum (Roux, 1833)
• Macrobrachium niphanae Shokita & Takeda, 1989
• Macrobrachium nipponense (De Haan, 1849)
• Macrobrachium nobilii (Henderson & Matthai, 1910)
• Macrobrachium novaehollandiae (De Man, 1908)
• Macrobrachium oaxacae Mejía-Ortíz & López-Mejía, 2011^[7]
• Macrobrachium occidentale Holthuis, 1950
• Macrobrachium oenone (De Man, 1902)
• Macrobrachium ohione (Smith, 1874)
• Macrobrachium olfersii (Wiegmann, 1836)
• Macrobrachium oxyphilus Ng, 1992
• Macrobrachium panamense Rathbun, 1912
• Macrobrachium pantanalense dos Santos, Hayd & Anger, 2013^[8]
• Macrobrachium patheinense Phone & Suzuki, 2004
• Macrobrachium patsa (Coutière, 1899)
• Macrobrachium pectinatum S. Pereira, 1986
• Macrobrachium peguense (Tiwari, 1952)
• Macrobrachium pentazona He, Gao & Guo, 2009
• Macrobrachium petersii (Hilgendorf, 1879)
• Macrobrachium petiti (Roux, 1934)
• Macrobrachium petronioi Melo, Lobão & Fernandes, 1986
• Macrobrachium phongnhaense (Tu & Cuong, 2015)
• Macrobrachium pilimanus (De Man, 1879)
• Macrobrachium pilosum Cai & Dai, 1999
• Macrobrachium placidulum (De Man, 1892)
• Macrobrachium placidum (De Man, 1892)
• Macrobrachium platycheles Ou & Yeo, 1995
• Macrobrachium platyrostris (Tiwari, 1952)
• Macrobrachium poeti Holthuis, 1984
• Macrobrachium potiuna (Müller, 1880)
• Macrobrachium praecox (Roux, 1928)
• Macrobrachium pumilum S. Pereira, 1986
• Macrobrachium purpureamanus Wowor, 1999
• Macrobrachium quelchi (De Man, 1900)
• Macrobrachium raridens (Hilgendorf, 1893)
• Macrobrachium rathbunae Holthuis, 1950
• Macrobrachium reyesi S. Pereira, 1986
• Macrobrachium rhodochir Ng, 1995
• Macrobrachium rodriguezi S. Pereira, 1986
• Macrobrachium rogersi (Tiwari, 1952)
• Macrobrachium rosenbergii (De Man, 1879)
• Macrobrachium rostratum X. Wang, 1997
• Macrobrachium rude (Heller, 1862)
• Macrobrachium sabanus Ng, 1994
• Macrobrachium saengphani (Saengphan, Panijpan, Senapin, Suksomnit & Phiwsaiya, 2020)
• Macrobrachium saigonense (Nguyên, 2006)
• Macrobrachium sankolli (Jalihal & Shenoy in Jalihal, Shenoy & Sankolli, 1988)
• Macrobrachium santanderensis (Garcia-Perez & Villamizar, 2009)
• Macrobrachium sbordonii (Mejía-Ortíz, Baldari & López-Mejía, 2008)
• Macrobrachium scabriculum (Heller, 1862)
• Macrobrachium scorteccii (Maccagno, 1961)
• Macrobrachium shaoi (Cai & Jeng, 2001)
• Macrobrachium shokitai (Fujino & Baba, 1973)
• Macrobrachium sintangense (De Man, 1898)
• Macrobrachium sirindhorn (Naiyanetr, 2001)
• Macrobrachium siwalikense (Tiwari, 1952)
• Macrobrachium sollaudii (De Man, 1912)
• Macrobrachium spinipes (Schenkel, 1902)
• Macrobrachium spinosum (Cai & Ng, 2001)
• Macrobrachium srilankense (Costa, 1979)
• Macrobrachium striatum (N. N. Pillai, 1991)
• Macrobrachium sulcatus (Henderson & Matthai, 1910)
• Macrobrachium sulcicarpale (Holthuis, 1950)
• Macrobrachium sundaicum (Heller, 1862)
• Macrobrachium suongae (Nguyên, 2003)
• Macrobrachium superbum (Heller, 1862)
• Macrobrachium surinamicum (Holthuis, 1948)
• Macrobrachium tenellum (Smith, 1871)
• Macrobrachium tenuirostrum (X. Wang, 1997)
• Macrobrachium thai (Cai, Naiyanetr & Ng, 2004)
• Macrobrachium therezieni (Holthuis, 1965)
• Macrobrachium thuylami (Nguyên, 2006)
• Macrobrachium thysi (Powell, 1980)
• Macrobrachium tiwarii (Jalihal, Shenoy & Sankolli, 1988)
• Macrobrachium tolmerum (Riek, 1951)
• Macrobrachium totonacum (Mejía, Alvarez & Hartnoll, 2003)
• Macrobrachium transandicum (Holthuis, 1950)
• Macrobrachium tratense (Cai, Naiyanetr & Ng, 2004)
• Macrobrachium trichodactylum (Liang, Liu & Chen in Li, Liu, Liang & Chen, 2007)
• Macrobrachium tuxtlaense (Villalobos & Alvarez, 1999)
• Macrobrachium unikarnatakae (Jalihal, Shenoy & Sankolli, 1988)
• Macrobrachium urayang (Wowor & Short, 2007)
• Macrobrachium veliense (Jayachandran & Joseph, 1985)
• Macrobrachium venustum (Parisi, 1919)
• Macrobrachium vicconi (Román, Ortega & Mejía, 2000)
• Macrobrachium vietnamiense (Đăng in Đăng & B. Y. Nguyên, 1972)
• Macrobrachium villalobosi (H. H. Hobbs Jr., 1973)
• Macrobrachium villosimanus (Tiwari, 1949)
• Macrobrachium vollenhoveni (Herklots, 1857)
• Macrobrachium walvanense (Almelkar, Jalihal & Sankolli, 1999)
• Macrobrachium wannanense (Dai & Tan, 1993)
• Macrobrachium weberi (De Man, 1892)
• Macrobrachium xmas (Fujita, Davie & Ng, 2015)
• Macrobrachium yui (Holthuis, 1950)
• Macrobrachium zariquieyi (Holthuis, 1949)