The giant freshwater prawns of the Macrobrachium rosenbergii species group (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae)

Raffles Bulletin of Zoology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 321-336

  Wowor, Daisy ^a   Ng, Peter K L ^b  

^a INDONESIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES   (Indonesia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Caridea; Crustacea; Macrobrachium rosenbergii; Palaemonidae; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CARIDEA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MACROBRACHIUM ROSENBERGII; PALAEMONIDAE;

EID: 40849132929     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02172445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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