Macrobrachium walvanense is a species of freshwater shrimp. It was first described in 1999 by Almelkar and coworkers.[1] M. walvanense is collected from the Walvan Dam at Lonavala, near Pune (Maharashtra State, India). It is a medium-sized freshwater prawn grows a maximum size (Total Length) of 50 mm. Body is translucent with branched reddish-brown chromatophores spread from carpus to fingertips of second chelipeds. The features of rostrum, second cheliped, and telson are made it differs from M. banjarae.[2]
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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. walvanense
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| Binomial name | |
| Macrobrachium walvanense Almelkar et al., 1999
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References
edit- ^ G. B. Almelkar , D. R. Jalihal , and K. N. Sankolli (July 20–24, 1998). "Description of a New Inland Prawn, Macrobrachium Walvanense, from India (Decapoda, Palaemonidae)". In Frederick Schram and Carel von Vaupel Klein (ed.). Crustaceans and the Biodiversity Crisis: Proceedings of the Fourth International Crustacean Congress. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Brill. pp. 327–332. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004630543_026. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
{{cite conference}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Tiwari, K.K. (1958). New species and sub species of India freshwater prawns. Rec. Ind. Mus. 53: 297-300.
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