Macrobrachium mammillodactylus (Knob-fingered River Prawn)
Species Account
A wide-ranging, euryhaline, insular West Pacific species. In Australia, the species is restricted to coastal fresh and brackish waters on eastern Cape York Peninsula as far south as Cooktown. Rostrum of short to medium length, deep proximally and abruptly tapered distally, upper margin straight, upturned or sinuous; fingers of second chelae of dominant males lacking a setal pubescence, cutting edges with submedial rows of tubercles. A large species reaching 137 mm in length. Eggs small (0.6 mm) and numerous. — John W. Short, 2026
High-resolution downloadable image
Colour photograph, 3600 x 2400 pixels (30 x 20 cm @ 300dpi), JPEG (2.32 MB). Photographed specimen collected from Mimika region, Papua, Indonesia, 1 June 2000.
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Attribution – John W. Short, BioAccess Australia.