Macrobrachium carcinus

Min Depth

0 meters

Max Depth

2 meters

Overall Geographic Range

Florida–Gulf of Mexico, Antilles–Brazil

Habitat-Biology

benthic
coastal freshwater
estuarine
commercially important

References

Abele, L. G., and W. Kim. 1986. An Illustrated Guide to the Marine Decapod Crustaceans of Florida. State of Florida, Department of Environmental Regulation, Technical Series, Volume 8, Number 1, Parts1 & 2: 1–760.
Álvarez, F., J. L. Villalobos, Y. Rojas, and R. Robles. 1999. Listas y comentarios sobre los crustáceos decápodos de Veracruz, México. Anales del Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 70: 1–27.
Chace, F. A., Jr., and H. H. Hobbs, Jr. 1969. The freshwater and terrestrial decapod crustaceans of the West Indies with special reference to Dominica. Bulletin of the U.S. National Museum 292: i–v, 1–258.
Holthuis, L. B. 1952. A general revision of the Palaemonidae (Crustacea Decapoda Natantia) of the Americas. II. The subfamily Palaemoninae. Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Papers 12: 1–396.
Wicksten, M. K. 2005b. 3. Palaemonid shrimps. Pp. 67–97 in J. L. Hernández-Aguilera, J. A. Ruiz-Nuño, R. E. Toral-Almazán, and V. Arenas-Fuentes eds. Camarones, Langostas y Cangrejos de la Costa Este de México, Volumen I. Econatura – CONABIO, México.

Species Notes

None noted.

Source

Felder, D. L., F. Álvarez, J. W. Goy, and R. Lemaitre. 2009. Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, with Comments on the Amphionidacea, Pp. 1019–1104 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

GulfBase Citation

Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies. 2016. GulfBase: Resource Database for Gulf of Mexico Research, Education, and Management. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.gulfbase.org, 05-09-2024.

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