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Macrobrachium

Macrobrachium
Ohio River Shrimp (Macrobrachium ohione).jpg
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:


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