https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Macrobrachium_walvanenseMacrobrachium walvanense - Revision history2026-08-19T06:48:07ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.43.6https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?title=Macrobrachium_walvanense&diff=414653&oldid=prevAjay Kumar: Creating a new article2023-08-18T13:46:45Z<p>Creating a new article</p>
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'''''Macrobrachium walvanense''''' is a species of freshwater [[Caridea|shrimp]]. It was first described in 1999 by Almelkar and coworkers.<ref>{{Cite conference |last=G. B. Almelkar , D. R. Jalihal , and K. N. Sankolli |date=July 20–24, 1998 |title=Description of a New Inland Prawn, Macrobrachium Walvanense, from India (Decapoda, Palaemonidae) |url=https://brill.com/edcollchap/book/9789004630543/B9789004630543_s026.xml |location=Amsterdam, The Netherlands |publisher=Brill |pages=327–332 |id=https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004630543_026 |accessdate=17 August 2023 |editor=Frederick Schram and Carel von Vaupel Klein |book-title=Crustaceans and the Biodiversity Crisis: Proceedings of the Fourth International Crustacean Congress}}</ref> ''M. walvanense'' is collected from the [[Walvan Dam]] at Lonavala, near [[Pune]] ([[Maharashtra State]], India). It is a medium-sized freshwater prawn grows a maximum size (Total Length) of 50&nbsp;mm. Body is translucent with branched reddish-brown chromatophores spread from carpus to fingertips of second chelipeds. The features of rostrum, second cheliped, and telson are made it differs from ''M. banjarae''.<ref>Tiwari, K.K. (1958). New species and sub species of India freshwater prawns. Rec. Ind. Mus. 53: 297-300.</ref><br />
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