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Macrobrachium

{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}}

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| image = Macrobrachium rosenbergii.jpg

| image_caption = Macrobrachium rosenbergii, the giant freshwater prawn, a commercially important species

| image2 = Macrobrachium latidactylus (Scissor river prawn, Ulang, Uwang) - Bukidnon, Philippines 14.jpg

| image2_caption = Macrobrachium latidactylus, scissor river prawn from the Philippines

| taxon = Macrobrachium

| authority = Spence Bate, 1868

| type_species = Macrobrachium americanum

| type_species_authority = Bate, 1868 {{cite journal |author=J. W. Short |title=A revision of Australian river prawns, Macrobrachium (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) |journal=Hydrobiologia |volume=525 |issue=1–3 |year=2004 |doi=10.1023/B:HYDR.0000038871.50730.95 |pages=1–100}}

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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.{{cite journal |title=On a new Genus, with four new Species, of Freshwater Prawns |author=Charles Spence Bate |year=1868 |journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London |pages=363–368 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1vAKAAAAIAAJ|author-link=Charles Spence Bate }}

Species

It contains these species:{{ITIS|id=96220|taxon=Macrobrachium|access-date=24 December 2021}}{{cite WoRMS |author=Charles Fransen |year=2012 |title=Macrobrachium Spence Bate, 1868a |id=156892 |access-date=February 11, 2012}}{{Cite journal|last1=Saengphan|first1=Nukul|last2=Panijpan|first2=Bhinyo|last3=Senapin|first3=Saengchan|last4=Suksomnit|first4=Auaree|last5=Phiwsaiya|first5=Kornsunee|date=2020-10-29|title=Morphology and molecular phylogeny of Macrobrachium saengphani sp. nov. (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Northern Thailand|url=https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4868.4.4|journal=Zootaxa|volume=4868|issue=4|pages=531–542|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4868.4.4|pmid=33311381 |issn=1175-5334|url-access=subscription}}

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External links

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Category:Palaemonidae

Category:Freshwater crustaceans

Category:Taxa named by Charles Spence Bate