Macrobrachium aracamuni

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 aracamuni

Name

Macrobrachium aracamuni Rodríguez, 1982.

Holotype: IVIC. male ♂. 10.II.1981. leg. Molina & E. Medina.

Type locality: Venezuela, Cerro Aracamuni, a tepuy or flat-top mountain, near the Brazil border. Estado Amazonas, 680m above sea level.

References

• Rodriguez, G. 1982: Fresh-water shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda, Natantia) of the Orinoco basin and the Venezuelan Guayana. Journal of Crustacean Biology 2 (3): 278–391.
• Pereira, G. 1997: A cladistic analysis of the freshwater shrimps of the family Palaemonidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridae). Acta Biologica Venezuelica. 17(suplemento 1):1-69.
• Suárez, H. 2005: A Catalogue of the type material in the IVIC reference collection of Decapoda, Venezuela. Journal of Crustacean Biology 25 (1): 154–158.