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Issue: Vol. 2140 No. 1: 24 Jun. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-06-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2140.1.5
Page range: 38–44
Abstract views: 30
PDF downloaded: 1

Macrobrachium pentazona, a new freshwater palaemonid prawn (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemoindae) from Guangdong Province, China

Department of Animal Science, Foshan Science and Technology College, Nanhai, 528231, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China
Inner Mongolia Fisheries Technology Extension Station, Hohhot, 010010, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China
Department of Animal Science, Foshan Science and Technology College, Nanhai, 528231, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China
Crustacea larval morphology zoea I Scanning EM Decapoda Periclimenes

Abstract

Macrobrachium pentazona, a new freshwater palaemonid prawn is described and is illustrated on the base of three specimens collected from a Beijiang river, near Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province, southern China. It can be distinguished from its congeners by a combination of characters that include the rostral formula; the segmental ratios and spination, the arrangement of teeth on the cutting edge of the fingers of the second pereiopod; the segmental ratios of third pereiopod; the wide scaphocerite; the small uropodal diaeresis spine; and with a regular striking colour pattern.

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