Macrobrachium walvanense

Macrobrachium walvanense is a species of freshwater shrimp. It was first described in 1999 by Almelkar and coworkers.^[1] M. walvanense is collected from the Walvan Dam at Lonavala, near Pune (Maharashtra State, India). It is a medium-sized freshwater prawn grows a maximum size (Total Length) of 50 mm. Body is translucent with branched reddish-brown chromatophores spread from carpus to fingertips of second chelipeds. The features of rostrum, second cheliped, and telson are made it differs from M. banjarae.^[2]

Macrobrachium walvanense
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Caridea
Family:	Palaemonidae
Genus:	Macrobrachium
Species:	M. walvanense
Binomial name
Macrobrachium walvanense Almelkar et al., 1999