bit of a curve ball here
any idents on this little guy .
fresh water buy the way.
taken in country n.s.w australia
reguards
matty
shrimp id?
Started by jugglematt, Nov 01 2003 04:56 PM
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jugglematt
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Wolf Eel
Posted 01 November 2003 - 04:56 PM
hi ho
bit of a curve ball here
any idents on this little guy .
fresh water buy the way.
taken in country n.s.w australia
reguards
matty
bit of a curve ball here
any idents on this little guy .
fresh water buy the way.
taken in country n.s.w australia
reguards
matty
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jugglematt
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Wolf Eel
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Art
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Wolf Eel
Posted 02 November 2003 - 05:39 PM
Hey !
Matty, your shrimp is Macrobrachium sp., a fresh-water palaemonid shrimp, the most common and wide-spread species in NSW is Macrobrachium australiense, and it looks much like it (I have an unpublished key to the Macrobrachium species of OZ by John Short), I would need to see the claws and the rostrum in lateral view to confirm it as M. australiense
cheers
Art
Matty, your shrimp is Macrobrachium sp., a fresh-water palaemonid shrimp, the most common and wide-spread species in NSW is Macrobrachium australiense, and it looks much like it (I have an unpublished key to the Macrobrachium species of OZ by John Short), I would need to see the claws and the rostrum in lateral view to confirm it as M. australiense
cheers
Art
