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Decapoda - Caridea - Palaemonidae - Macrobrachium

Macrobrachium olfersii (Wiegmann, 1836)

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World Distribution
Felder et al. (2009, Checklist) - NCar–GMx, Carib–Brazil. ?Lesser Antilles
(Sasaki, 2019) - WA, including British Guiana (Cuyuni River). 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: ?Lesser Antilles, IOV (Bonaire, Curaçao). Freshwater. WA.
Palaemon spinimanus Latreille, 1818 - H. Milne Edwards, 1837: 399 'Antilles et côtes du Brésil' [part = M. olfersii, cf. De Grave & Fransen, 2011: 328].
?Macrobrachium olfersii - Rathbun, 1920a: 8, Bonaire, Curaçao [coll. J. Boeke, 1905]. - Schmitt, 1936: 372, Bonaire [coll. P. Hummelinck, 1930; in Chace & Holthis (1948: 23) this record would be Macrobrachium sp. Near faustinum, not M. olfersii].

French Guiana and surroundings areas: Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapà)
Palaemon (Marcrobrachium) ?olfersii Wiegmann – Gordon, 1935: 323, British Guiana [immature specimens].
Macrobrachium ?olfersii – Holthuis, 1948: 1112, Suriname [small and/or incomplete specimens].
Macrobrachium olfersii – Holthuis, 1952: 95, Guyana, Suriname. — Holthuis, 1959a: 94, Suriname. — Holthuis, 1993: 6, Suriname [Brokopondo Lake]. — Magalhães & Pereira, 2007: tab. 2, Suriname. — Vieira, 2008, tab. 5.1: 69, Brazil Amapá [Tumucumaque National Park between 2004 and 2006]. — Pimentel & Magalhães, 2014: 1309, fig. 3, Brazil Amapá. — Santos & Osborne, 2018: 153, Guyana [Upper Berbice river]. — Osborne, 2021: 56, Guyana [Upper Berbice, Potaro rivers].
Distribution/Habitat – WA; Freshwater.

References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)

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