Reexamination of the diagnostic characters of two freshwater palaemonid prawns, Macrobrachium nipponense (De Haan, 1849) and M. Formosense bate, 1868 (Decapoda, Caridea) from Japan

Crustaceana

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 831-839

  Suzuki, Hiroshi ^a   Kusamura, Tetsuroh ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARIDEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MACROBRACHIUM FORMOSENSE; MACROBRACHIUM NIPPONENSE; PALAEMONIDAE;

EID: 0030724518     PISSN: 0011216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156854097X00276     Document Type: Article

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