Macrobrachium rosenbergii, also known as the giant river prawn or giant freshwater prawn, is a commercially important species of palaemonid freshwater prawn. It is found throughout the tropical and subtropical areas of the Indo-Pacific region, from India to Southeast Asia and Northern Australia. [3] .

Macrobrachium is a genus of freshwater prawns or shrimps characterised by the extreme enlargement of the second pair of pereiopods, at least in the male. [ 2 ] Species

Macrobrachium ohione, commonly known as the Ohio shrimp, Ohio river shrimp or Ohio river prawn, is a species of freshwater shrimp found in rivers throughout the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean drainage basins of North America.

Introduced species remark In Peruvian part of the South Pacific Ocean : In spite of frequent escapes 'Macrobrachium rosenbergii is generally considered an ecologically harmless nonindigenous species because of its well documented non-aggressive behavior' (Williams 2001). However several established populations are known and their impacts have ...

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Identification: Macrobrachium rosenbergii is characterized by having a pair of long and slender chellipeds that are blue or orange and extend well beyond the rostrum. The pair of chelipeds are equal in size, which is unique among Macrobrachium species.

The Giant freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii, grows to a large size in the Indo-Pacific region and is a popular aquatic food in Asian countries, in Europe and North America.

Macrobrachium rosenbergii is the largest species of the prawn genus Macrobrachium. This is a large genus of around 200 species, largely freshwater tropical and sub-tropical, many of which have local importance in fisheries.

There are 150 species of Macrobrachium in the world, of which 49 are commercial. Twentyseven of the commercial species are found in Asia and the Pacific. Most live in freshwater. A few species live in brackishwater in the mouths of rivers.

Macrobrachium rosenbergii, known as the Giant River Prawn, is a large catadromous shrimp native to coastal rivers and estuaries from Sri Lanka to Indonesia (Java and Borneo) and north to southern China. Extensive aquaculture of M. rosenbergii began in the 1960s in Hawaii, and became a major economic resource by the 1980s.