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Macrobrachium gangeticum Spence Bate, 1868 
AphiaID: 587232

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Caridea (Infraorder) > Palaemonoidea (Superfamily) > Palaemonidae (Family) > Palaemoninae (Subfamily) > Macrobrachium (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Macrobrachium Spence Bate, 1868a
Synonymised
taxa		  Palaemon choprai Tiwari, 1949
Sources  original description: Spence Bate, C., 1868a. On a new genus, with four new species, of freshwater prawns.— Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1868: 363-368. [details]

basis of record: De Grave, S. & C.H.J.M. Fransen. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zool. Med. Leiden 85(9): 30.ix.2011: 195-589 figs 1-59. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Tiwari, K.K. & L.B. Holthuis, 1996. The identity of Macrobrachium gangeticum Bate, 1868 (Decapoda, Caridea, Palaemonidae).— Crustaceana 69: 922-925. [details]

from synonym: Tiwari, K.K., 1949a. On a new species of Palaemon from Banaras, with a note on Palaemon lanchesteri De Man.— Records of the Indian Museum 45: 333-345. [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:587232
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
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2011-11-10 08:54:32Z  created  Fransen, Charles
  
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  Citation: Fransen, C. (2013). Macrobrachium gangeticum Spence Bate, 1868. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=587232 on 2013-05-25
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