| Macrobrachium | |
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| Macrobrachium rosenbergii, the giant freshwater prawn, a commercially important species | |
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| Macrobrachium latidactylus, scissor river prawn from the Philippines | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Caridea |
| Family: | Palaemonidae |
| Genus: | Macrobrachium Spence Bate, 1868 |
| Type species | |
| Macrobrachium americanum Bate, 1868 [1]
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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.[2]
- ^ J. W. Short (2004). "A revision of Australian river prawns, Macrobrachium (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae)". Hydrobiologia. 525 (1–3): 1–100. doi:10.1023/B:HYDR.0000038871.50730.95.
- ^ Charles Spence Bate (1868). "On a new Genus, with four new Species, of Freshwater Prawns". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 363–368.