Tags: Crustacean.

Macrobrachium formosense the crane river prawn is a species of freshwater shrimp in the family Palaemonidae. It lives in streams and rivers in Taiwan and southern Japan including the Ryukyu Islands. Macrobrachium formosense reaches a carapace length of 10–20 millimetres (0.4–0.8 in).

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binomial authority
Charles Spence Bate
class
Malacostraca
conservation status
LC
conservation status system
iucn3.1
family
Palaemonidae
genus
Macrobrachium
kingdom
Animal
order
Decapoda, Caridea
phylum
Arthropod, Crustacean
synonym
*Palaemon riukiuensis (Kubo 1940), *Palaemon similis (Yu 1931), *Palemon longipes (De Haan 1849)

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