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Post by Melanie on Jul 5, 2007 16:52:37 GMT
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Post by Melanie on Jul 5, 2007 18:08:08 GMT
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Post by Bowhead Whale on Jul 18, 2007 18:28:50 GMT
Are you sure it's not a lobster?
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Post by Melanie on Jul 18, 2007 21:35:47 GMT
Yes, as far as i know lobsters are much larger than freshwater crayfishs. But there are crayfish which are resemble lobsters.
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Post by another specialist on Jul 18, 2007 22:57:20 GMT
I believe Bowhead Whale was questioning your first original entry which says crab.
Which it is definately not.
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Post by another specialist on Jul 18, 2007 23:02:00 GMT
Macrobrachium are not really lobsters or crayfish.
They are freshwater prawns.
The image shows a male if its single large claw which the female hasn't.
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Post by surroundx on Mar 19, 2011 7:45:40 GMT
The second species is a crustacean endemic to the Mascarenes, Macrobrachium hirtimanus (Olivier, 1811). It has been reported from the Marsouins River (ROUX, 1934; KIENER, 1981). KIENER (1981) included in his paper a black-and-white photo representing two adult males caught in 1980 in the Marsouins River. He also reports the species from the East and Mât Rivers. But this species was not found on these rivers since this date. Its habitat is supposed to be similar to that of M. lepidactylus. Macrobrachium hirtimanus is supposed to be present only in the Mascarenes area located between Réunion and Mauritius. This would make it an endemic to the area with high heritage-related value. It appears to be very rare nowadays (if not extinct) and it is highly threatened through poaching for food and loss of habitat (KEITH et al., 1999). Source: www.kmae-journal.org/index.php?option=com_article&access=standard&Itemid=129&url=/articles/kmae/abs/2002/01/kmae200236405/kmae200236405.html |
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Post by Sebbe on Dec 24, 2014 12:50:26 GMT
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Post by redpinnipedgamer on Oct 21, 2024 2:14:07 GMT
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