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.
Species
It contains these species:
Macrobrachium acanthochirus F. Villalobos, 1967
Macrobrachium acanthurus (Wiegmann, 1836) Macrobrachium acherontium Holthuis, 1977 Macrobrachium adscitum Riek, 1951 Macrobrachium aemulum (Nobili, 1906) Macrobrachium agwi Klotz, 2008 Macrobrachium ahkowi Chong & Khoo, 1987 Macrobrachium altifrons (Henderson, 1893) Macrobrachium amazonicum (Heller, 1862) Macrobrachium americanum Spence Bate, 1868 Macrobrachium amplimanus Cai & Dai, 1999 Macrobrachium andamanicum (Tiwari, 1952) Macrobrachium aracamuni Rodríguez, 1982 Macrobrachium asperulum (von Martens, 1868) Macrobrachium assamense (Tiwari, 1958) Macrobrachium atabapense S. Pereira, 1986 Macrobrachium atactum Riek, 1951 Macrobrachium auratum Short, 2004 Macrobrachium australe (Guérin-Méneville, 1838) Macrobrachium australiense Holthuis, 1950 Macrobrachium banjarae (Tiwari, 1958) Macrobrachium bariense (De Man, 1892) Macrobrachium birai Lobão, Melo & Fernandes, 1986 Macrobrachium birmanicum Schenkel, 1902 Macrobrachium bombajense Almelkar & Sankolli, 2006 Macrobrachium borellii (Nobili, 1896) Macrobrachium brasiliense (Heller, 1862) Macrobrachium brevicarpum Tan & Dong, 1996 Macrobrachium bullatum Fincham, 1987 Macrobrachium cacharense (Tiwari, 1952) Macrobrachium caledonicum (Roux, 1926) Macrobrachium callirrhoe (De Man, 1898) Macrobrachium canarae (Tiwari, 1958) Macrobrachium carcinus (Linnaeus, 1758) Macrobrachium catonium H. H. Hobbs III & H. H. Hobbs Jr., 1995 Macrobrachium cavernicola (Kemp, 1924) Macrobrachium chevalieri (Roux, 1935) Macrobrachium clymene (De Man, 1902) Macrobrachium cocoense Abele & W. Kim, 1984 Macrobrachium cosolapaense Mejía-Ortíz & López-Mejía, 2011 Macrobrachium cortezi Rodríguez, 1982 Macrobrachium cowlesi Holthuis, 1950 Macrobrachium crebrum Abele & W. Kim, 1989 Macrobrachium crenulatum Holthuis, 1950 Macrobrachium dalatense Nguyên, 2003 Macrobrachium dayanum (Henderson, 1893) Macrobrachium denticulatum Ostrovski, Da Fonseca & Da Silva-Ferreira, 1996 Macrobrachium depressimanum S. Pereira, 1993 Macrobrachium dienbienphuense Đăng & B. Y. Nguyên, 1972 Macrobrachium dierythrum S. Pereira, 1986 Macrobrachium digitus Abele & W. Kim, 1989 Macrobrachium digueti (Bouvier, 1895) Macrobrachium dolatum Cai, Naiyanetr & Ng, 2004 Macrobrachium dolichodactylus (Hilgendorf, 1879) Macrobrachium duri Wowor & Ng, 2010 Macrobrachium dux (Lenz, 1910) Macrobrachium edentatum Liang & Yan, 1986 Macrobrachium elatum Jayachandran, 1987 Macrobrachium elegantum Pan, Hou & S.