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.
| Macrobrachium | |
|---|---|
| Macrobrachium rosenbergii, the giant freshwater prawn, a commercially important species | |
| Macrobrachium latidactylus, scissor river prawn from the Philippines | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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 | |
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