Macrobrachium australe (Guérin-Méneville, 1838)

Shokita, Yixiong Cai Shigemitsu, 2006, Report On A Collection Of Freshwater Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) From The Philippines, With Descriptions Of Four New Species, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 54 (2), pp. 245-270 : 263

Macrobrachium australe (Guérin-Méneville, 1838)

Palaemon australis Guérin-Méneville, 1838: 37 [type locality: Tahiti , French Polynesia].

Palaemon sundaicus Heller, 1862: 415 , Pl. 2 Figs. 38, 39 [type locality: Java, Indonesia].

Palaemon dispar Von Martens 1868: 41 [type locality: Pulau Adonara , east of Flores, Indonesia].

Palaemon (Eupalaemon) dispar – De Man, 1902: 766.

Macrobrachium australe – Holthuis, 1950: 124, Figs. 27-30; Chace & Bruce, 1993: 23, Fig. 2 ; Cai & Ng, 2001: 683, Fig. 14a-d; Cai & Anker, 2004: 258.

Material examined. – 2 males, cl 3.0- 3.1 mm, UR, Caboroan , Luzon Island, Philippines, 15 Jul.1985 ; 1 male, cl 26 mm, UR, Bauang River , Luzon Island, Philippines, 16 Jul.1985 ; 1 female, cl 10.5 mm, 1 ovig. female, cl 13.5 mm, UR, Iraan River , Philippines, 5 Aug.1985 ; 1 male, cl 30 mm, UR, Agan River , Mindoro Island, Philippines, 14 Aug.1985 .

Remarks. – This is one of the most common and widely distributed species in the Indo-West Pacific.

Distribution. – Indo-West Pacific, from Madagascar to Polynesia.

Figures

Fig. 2. Caridina cebuensis, new species, male, cl 2.5 mm, paratype, Cebu, Philippines:A, third pereiopod; B, dactylus of third pereiopod; C, fifth pereiopod; D, dactylus of fifth pereiopod; E, endopod of male first pleopod; F, appendix masculina and appendix interna of male second pleopod. Scale bars: A, C = 0.5 mm; B, D-F = 0.1 mm.