Macrobrachium lar ( Fabricius, 1798 )

Cai, Yixiong, Choy, Satish & Ng, Peter K. L., 2009, Epigean And Hypogean Freshwater Shrimps Of Bohol Island, Central Philippines (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea), Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57 (1), pp. 65-89 : 86

Macrobrachium lar ( Fabricius, 1798)

Palaemon Lar Weber, 1795: 94 [nomen nudum]

Palaemon Lar Fabricius, 1798: 402 [type locality: in India orientali Dom. Daldorf]; Cowles, 1914: 380, Pl. 2 Fig. 7 .

Palaemon (Eupalaemon) lar – De Man, 1902: 774.

Macrobrachium lar – Holthuis, 1950: 176, Fig. 37; Chace & Bruce, 1993: 30, Fig. 9 ; Yeo et al., 1999: 236; Cai & Ng, 2001: 683, Fig. 14e; Wowor & Choy, 2001: 285; Cai & Ng, 2002: 75; Cai & Anker, 2004: 256; Cai et al., 2004: 585; Wowor et al., 2004: 353, Fig. 14; Short, 2004: 75, Fig. 29.

Material examined. – One male, cl 22.6 mm, ZRC 2007.0309 , Loboc River , Loboc, coll. Y. Cai et al., 19 Dec.2000 .

Remarks. – Macrobrachium lar is a well known species, widely distributed throughout the Indo-West Pacific. However, it seems rather rare in Bohol.

Figures

Fig. 7. Caridina boholensis, new species: A, cephalothorax and cephalic appendages, lateral view; B, telson; C, distal portion of telson; D, scaphocerite; E, mandible; F, maxillula; G, maxilla; H, first maxilliped; I, second maxilliped; J, third maxilliped; K, first pereiopod; L, second pereiopod. Scale bars: A, B, D = 1 mm, E–L = 0.5 mm, C = 0.1 mm (male, cl 3.7 mm, paratype, ZRC, Cave Bongkawi, Antequrra).

Fig. 9. Caridina valencia, new species: A, cephalothorax and cephalic appendages, lateral view; B, distal portion of telson; C, first pereiopod; D, second pereiopod; E, third pereiopod; F, dactylus of third pereiopod; G, fifth pereiopod; H, dactylus of fifth pereiopod; I, endopod of male first pleopod; J, appendix masculina and appendix interna of male second pleopod; K, uropodal diaeresis. Scale bars: A = 1 mm; B, F, H = 0.1 mm; C–E, G = 0.5 mm; I–K = 0.2 mm. (males, cl 3.4 mm, paratype, ZRC, spring Anislaq, outside Cave Anislaq, Valencia).