Macrobrachium | |
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Macrobrachium ohione | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Crustacea |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Infraorder: | Caridea |
Family: | Palaemonidae |
Genus: |
Macrobrachium Spence Bate, 1868 |
Type species | |
Macrobrachium americanum Bate, 1868 |
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. It contains the following species: