Macrobrachium carcinus

Macrobrachium carcinus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Palaemonoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Malacostraca Subclassis: Eumalacostraca Superordo: Eucarida Ordo: Decapoda Subordo: Pleocyemata Infraordo: Caridea Superfamilia: Palaemonoidea

Familia: Palaemonidae
Subfamilia: Palaemoninae
Genus: Macrobrachium
Species: Macrobrachium carcinus

Name

Macrobrachium carcinus (Linnaeus, 1758).

Synonymy

• Cancer carcinus Linnaeus, 1758.
• Cancer jamaicensis Herbst, 1792.
• Periclimenes portoricensis Schmitt, 1933.

References

• Chace, F. A. and Bruce, A. J. (1993). The Caridean Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition 1907-1910, pt. 6: Superfamily Palaemonoidea. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, no. 543. vii + 152.
• Moreno, C., Graziani, C. y Orta, T. 2000. Reproducción natural y artificial del camarón de río Macrobrachium carcinus (L.). Interciencia, 25 (5):249-253.
• Pereira, Guido. (1982). El camarón gigante de nuestros ríos. Macrobrachium carcinus. Natura. 72:22-23.
• Pereira, Guido.(1997). A cladistic analysis of the freshwater shrimps of the family Palaemonidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridae). Acta Biologica Venezuelica. 17 (suplemento 1):1-69.

Links

• Macrobrachium carcinus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• ZipCodeZoo Macrobrachium carcinus (Linnaeus, 1758).

Vernacular names

português: pitu, camarão-d'água-doce