Macrobrachium scabriculum
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| Macrobrachium scabriculum | |
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| From Kerala, India. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Caridea |
| Family: | Palaemonidae |
| Genus: | Macrobrachium |
| Species: | M. scabriculum |
| Binomial name | |
| Macrobrachium scabriculum Heller, 1862 | |
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Macrobrachium scabriculum is a species of freshwater shrimp. It is distributed in countries and territories around the Indian Ocean (East Africa, Madagascar, South Asia, Sumatra).[1] It is known as Goda River prawn.[2][3] The total length of male prawns become about 6.5 cm long and in females it is about 5 cm. A kind of fur develops on the chelipeds of males. Eggs produced by M. scabriculum are smaller in size, brownish in color, elliptical or oval in shape[4] and hatched larvae undergone migration to low saline water for completion its life cycle.[5]
Macrobrachium scabriculum inhabit fresh and brackish water of larger rivers and streams.[1]
