Macrobrachium oxyphilus P.K.L. Ng, 1992
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1991 (De Grave et al. 2015)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution
north Selangor peat swamp forest, Peninsular Malaysia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Ng, P. K. L. (1992). On a new species of blackwater prawn, Macrobrachium oxyphilus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae) from peat swamps in Peninsular Malaysia. Zoologische Mededelingen 66(33): 441-447.
Other references:
De Grave S, Smith KG, Adeler NA, Allen DJ, Alvarez F, Anker A, et al. (2015). Dead Shrimp Blues: A Global Assessment of Extinction Risk in Freshwater Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea). PLoS ONE 10(3): e0120198.
De Grave, S. & C.H.J.M. Fransen. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zool. Med. Leiden. 85(9): 30.ix.2011: 195-589 figs 1-59.
De Grave, S., Wowor, D. and Cai, X. (2013). Macrobrachium oxyphilus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 29 March 2015.
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