Decapoda - Caridea - Palaemonidae - Macrobrachium

Macrobrachium carcinus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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World Distribution
Chace & Hobbs (1969: 97, US Natl. Mus. Bull.) - Florida and Texas, U.S.A., to Estado de Santa
Catarina, Brazil (Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Saint Thomas, Saint Croix, Saint Martin, Dominica, Saint Lucia I., Saint Vincent, Barbados, Trinidad, Bonaire, Curaçao, Aruba).
(Sasaki, 2019) - Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil (Amapà).

Environnement : Freshwater - Substrat/Association : Soft bottom (mud or sand)

Vertical range : Land & Freshwater - Min-Max observed: 0-0 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St Thomas, St Croix); Lesser Antilles, ICA (St Martin, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St Lucia, St Vincent, Barbados, Grenada, Tobago, Trinidad), IOV (Cubagua, Bonaire, Curaçao, Aruba). Freshwater. WA.
Palaemon jamaicensis - H. Milne Edwards, 1837: 398, 'Antilles'. - Streets, 1872: 134, St. Martin [coll. Van Rijgersma]. - Sharp, 1893: 122, St Martin [coll. Van Rijgersma]. - Verrill, 1892: 353, Dominica [coll. G.E. & A.H. Verrill, 1890].
Bithynis jamaicensis - Pocock, 1889: 10, Dominica.
Palaemon montezumae - Nobili, 1898: 2, St Thomas [coll. Duchassaing] - Palaemon montezumae de Saussure, 1857 accepted as Macrobrachium carcinus (Linnaeus, 1758) in WoRMS (2016).
Macrobrachium jamaicensis - Schmitt, 1924a: 83, Barbados [cf. Holthuis, 1952]. - Chace & Holthuis, 1948: 24, Curaçao [Coll. P.Hummelinck].
Macrobrachium carcinus - Holthuis, 1952: 114, St Thomas, St Croix, St Martin, Guadeloupe, Dominica, St Vincent, St Lucia, Barbados, Grenada, Cubagua, Bonaire, Curaçao, Aruba [R/V Velero III for Cubagua]. - Holthuis, 1959: 76, St Martin [Museum Philadelphia, coll. Van Rijgersma]. - Chace & Hobbs, 1969: 93, St Thomas, St Croix, St Martin, Dominica, St Lucia, St Vincent, Barbados, Trinidad, Bonaire, Curaçao, Aruba. - Chace, 1972: 20, Antigua. - Hart, 1980: tab. 2, Tobago. - Rodríguez, 1980: 124, Cubagua. - Lévêque, 1974: 45, Guadeloupe. - Carvacho, 1982: 16, Martinique. - Lim et al., 2002: 42, tab 2, Martinique [eaux douces côtières]. - Debrot, 2003: 70, Curaçao. - Monti et al., 2010: 32, 58, Guadeloupe.

French Guiana and surroundings areas: Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapà)
Bithynis jamaicensis (Herbst) – Young, 1900: 485, Guyana [British Guiana].
Palaemon jamaicensis (Herbst) – Gordon, 1935: 323, Guyana [British Guiana].
Palaemon (Macrobrachium) jamaicensis (Herbst, 1792) accepted as Macrobrachium carcinus (Linnaeus, 1758) in WoRMS (May, 2023).
Macrobrachium carcinus – Holthuis, 1952: 114, Guyana, Suriname. — Holthuis, 1959a: 96, Suriname, French Guiana. — Holthuis, 1993: 5, Suriname [Brokopondo Lake]. — Tricart & Foubert, 2000, tab. 1, French Guiana [List]. — Magalhães & Pereira, 2007: tab. 2, Suriname. — Pimentel & Magalhães, 2014: 1307, fig. 3, Brazil Amapá [Several locations]. — Chevalier & Clavier, 2020: 14, French Guiana [Natural Reserve TRÉSOR].
Distribution/Habitat – WA; Freshwater.

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