Macrobrachium latidactylus (Thallwitz, 1891)

Cai, Y., Naiyanetr, P. & Ng, P. K. L., 2004, The freshwater prawns of the genus Macrobrachium Bate, 1868, of Thailand (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae), Journal of Natural History 38 (5), pp. 581-649 : 584-585

Macrobrachium latidactylus (Thallwitz, 1891)

Palaemon latidactylus Thallwitz, 1891: 97 [type locality: Celebes (= Sulawesi, Indonesia);

Thallwitz, 1892: 17, figure 3. Palaemon (Macrobrachium) latidactylus: De Man : 1902: 805. Palaemon lampropus De Man, 1892: 493 , pl. 29: figure 49 [type locality: Celebes and Timor,

Indonesia]; Kemp, 1918a: 267; Suvatti, 1937: 49; 1967: 139. Macrobrachium latidactylus: Holthuis, 1950: 239 , figure 50; 1980: 97; Costa, 1979: 57;

Naiyanetr, 1980: 17; 1992: 18; Yeo et al., 1999: 236.

Material examined

Central Thailand. One W (CU), Kut Island , Gulf of Thailand, Trat, coll. P. Naiyanetr, 8 April 1976 .

South Thailand. Three WW, cl 19.0–22.0 mm (CU 1997.105), Trang, 29 October 1988 ; 1 W, cl 11.5 mm, 3 XX, cl 8–12.8 mm, 1 ovigerous X, cl 7.5 mm, eggs 0.4× 0.6 mm ( ZRC 2000.2601 ), Ranong Province: Kapoe District : Klong Ban Man waterfall, along highway 4 milestone, 22 km to Kapoe, 9°27∞24.2◊N, 98°30∞31.1◊E, coll. D. C. J. Yeo et al., 12 August 1997 .

Remarks

Macrobrachium latidactylus was recorded from Patani river, southern Thailand by Kemp (1918a) and Suvatti (1937) as Palaemon lampropus De Man, 1892 , a name that was synonymized with M. latidactylus by Holthuis (1950). Naiyanetr (1998: 32) also listed the species from Ko Kud, Trat, Eastern Thailand.

Macrobrachium latidactylus has been reported from Sri Lanka (Costa, 1979), Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, southern Thailand (Holthuis, 1950; Johnson, 1963; Chace and Bruce, 1993; Yeo et al., 1999), Hainan (Yu, 1936; Liu et al., 1990), Taiwan (Hwang and Yu, 1982; Shy and Yu, 1998) and the Ryukyu Islands (Shokita, 1979).