Macrobrachium patsa is a species of
freshwater prawn Freshwater shrimp are any shrimp which live in fresh water.
This includes:
*Any Caridea (shrimp) which live in fresh water, especially the family Atyidae
*Species in the genus ''Macrobrachium''
:*''Macrobrachium ohione'', the Ohio River shrimp
:* ...
belonging to the genus ''
Macrobrachium
''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.
Species
It contains these species:
*'' Macrobrachium acanthochirus'' F. Villalobo ...
''. It found in
Madagascar. ''M. patsa'' was first described in 1899. It is
endemic to Madagascar and reported to be found in Patsa river, and the species name derived from the place where it lives. M. pasta reaches a maximum size of 72 mm (total length). Louvel reported this species found among the other fished organisms in Madagascar.
[LOUVEL, M (1930) L'exploitation des eaux de Madagascar (peche et pisciculture). Tananarive, Gouvernement general de Madagascar et dependanees. 52 pp.]
References
Palaemonidae
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