{"scientificNameAuthorship":"(Schenkel, 1902)","RecordModifiedOn":"2018-02-14","CAAB_code":"28756241","phylum":"Arthropoda","Notes":"<i>M. rosenbergii</i> was used for all large freshwater prawns from the Australasian region, but animals from Australia, PNG & east Asia (east of Huxley Line) were recognised by Wowor & Ng (2007) as different & are now called <i>M. spinipes</i> (see Ng & Wowor, 2011). The western <i>M. rosenbergii</i> is widely farmed in Asia & imported as seafood into Australia. All previous records of <i>M. rosenbergii</i> from this region need to be re-examined to determine which species they really apply to.","habitat":"Freshwater<br>","NameVerifiedSource":"Ng, P.K.L., Wowor, D., 2011. On the nomenclature of the palaemonid names <i>Palaemon spinipes</i> Desmarest, 1817, <i>Palaemon spinipes</i> Schenkel, 1902, and <i>Macrobrachium wallacei</i> Wowor & Ng, 2008 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea)., <i>Zootaxa</i>, Vol. 2904: 66-68.","Parent_Id":28756901,"scientificName":"Macrobrachium spinipes","kingdom":"Animalia","order":"Decapoda","otherVernacularNames":"Cherabin<ASH> (used in the Australian Seafood Handbook for the Australian form of <i>M. rosenbergii</i>)","Reference":"Wowor, D., Ng, P.K.L., 2007. The giant freshwater prawns of the <i>Macrobrachium rosenbergii</i> species group (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae)., <i>The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology</i>, Vol. 55(2): 321-336.","vernacularName":"[a carid shrimp]","ChildCodes":"","RecordCreatedOn":"2009-08-12","scientificNameID_WoRMS":"urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:587558","family":"Palaemonidae","standardName":"","class":"Malacostraca","scientificNameID_AFD":"urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:cc4ba391-3930-4f11-869c-6fb806e342e2","CAAB_status":"Valid"}