Species of crustacean
Macrobrachium walvanense is a species of freshwater shrimp. It was first described in 1999 by Almelkar and coworkers.[1] 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 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.[2]
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