New distribution records of five species of freshwater palaemonid prawns (Crustacea: Decapoda) in Nagaland, India
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https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.10355.18.3.28590-28593Keywords:
Caridae, Crustacea, Macrobrachium sp., northeastern India, PalaemonidaeAbstract
Freshwater palaemonid prawns of Nagaland is studied based on the collections made during different surveys from 1998 to 2022 by various survey teams of Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata. Though 20 species of palaemonid prawns are reported from northeastern states of India, there are no previous reports from Nagaland. During the present study five species of palaemonid prawns—Macrobrachium cacharense (Tiwari, 1952), M. dayanum (Henderson, 1893), M. kempi (Tiwari, 1949), M. lamarrei lamarrei (H. Milne Edwards, 1837), and M. platyrostris (Tiwari, 1952)—are reported and forms first report from this underexplored state of India.
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