Macrobrachium atabapense

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 atabapense

Name

Macrobrachium atabapense Pereira, 1986.

• Holotype: 1 male is deposited in Museo de Biología de la Universidad Central de Venezuela. (MBUCV-XI-1781), Caracas – Venezuela.
• Paratypes: 6 males are in Museo de Biología de la Universidad Central de Venezuela. (MBUCV-XI-1761), Caracas – Venezuela. 4 males are deposited in United States National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. U.S.A. USNM-228618.

• Type locality: Atabapo river, Santa Cruz, Estado Amazonas – Venezuela (3º20’N – 67º29’W)
• Collector: Guido Pereira & Ramiro Royero, April 17, 1982.

References

• Pereira, G. (1985). Freshwater shrimps from Venezuela I: seven new species of Palaemoninae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 99 (2):198-213.
• 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.
• Macrobrachium atabapense – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• ZipCodeZoo Macrobrachium atabapense Pereira, 1986.