Macrobrachium scorteccii Maccagno, 1961
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1957
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution
Cal Galloan spring, Somalia (northern)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Maccagno, T .P. (1961). Missione 1957 del Prof. Guiseppe Scortecci in Migiurtinia (Somalia Sett.).— Atti della Società italiana di Scienze naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia naturale di Milano 100: 335343, Plates 17-18.
Other references:
Chace, Fenner A., Jr., and A. J. Bruce, 1993: The Caridean Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition 1907-1910, pt. 6: Superfamily Palaemonoidea. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, no. 543. vii + 152.
De Grave, S. (2013). Macrobrachium scorteccii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 29 March 2015.
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.
Holthuis, L. B. (1980). FAO Species catalogue. Vol. 1. Shrimps and prawns of the world. An annotated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries. FAO, Rome.
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