Macrobrachium indianum is a species of freshwater prawn of South India. It was first described in 2015.[1] This freshwater prawn was described from Pamba River, Kerala. This species is closely related to M. gurudeve, M. bombayense and M. kulkarnii.[2][3]
| Macrobrachium indianum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Caridea |
| Family: | Palaemonidae |
| Genus: | Macrobrachium |
| Species: | M. indianum
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| Binomial name | |
| Macrobrachium indianum Pillai et al., 2015
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References
edit- ^ P. M. PILLAI, V. UNNIKRISHNAN and K. PRASANNAN (March 2015). "Macrobrachium indianum (Decapoda: Palaemonidae), a new species of hill stream prawn from Pambar River, Kerala, India". Zootaxa. 3936 (4): 559–566. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3936.4.5. PMID 25947453.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Jayachandran, K.V.; Raji, A.V. (2004). "Three new species of Macrobrachium Bate, 1868 (Decapoda, Palaemonidae) from the Western Ghats of Kerala state, India". Crustaceana. 77 (10): 1179–1192. doi:10.1163/1568540043166100.
- ^ Almelkar, G.B.; Sankolli, K.N. (2006). "Description of two new prawns of the genus Macrobrachium Bate, 1868 (family Palaemonidae) – Macrobrachium bombayense and Macrobrachium kulkarnii from Konkan, Maharashtra, India". In Nair, C.M.; Nambuduri, D.D. (eds.). Freshwater Prawns: Advances in Biology, Aquaculture & Marketing. Proceedings of Freshwater Prawns 2003, International Symposium on freshwater prawns, 20 – 23 August 2003. Kochi, India: Allied Publishers, New Delhi. pp. 186–195.
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