Macrobrachium purpureamanus Wowor, 1999
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1998 (De Grave et al., 2015)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution
Kundur Island, Riau Archipelago, Indonesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Wowor, D. (1999). Description of a new species of blackwater prawn, Macrobrachium purpureamanus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae) from Kundur Island, Indonesia. Raffles Bullletin of Zoology 47: 33-43.
Other references:
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, 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.
Wowor, D. and De Grave, S. (2013). Macrobrachium purpureamanus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 29 March 2015.
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