Bigarm river shrimp

Macrobrachium faustinum

Classification

Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Palaemonidae

Macrobrachium faustinum is a species of freshwater shrimp that was first described in 1857. M. faustinum is dark brown and found from Florida to the Caribbean and southwards to Venezuela.

Distribution

Bigarm river shrimp — (c) Annie Bélair, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 13France · 3

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Annie Bélair, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionMacrobrachium faustinum, Wikipedia contributors

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