Macrobrachium latidactylus

Macrobrachium latidactylus (Thallwitz, 1891)
Palaemon latidactylus Thallwitz, 1891: 97 [type locality: Celebes (=Sulawesi, Indonesia);
Thallwitz, 1892: 17, figure 3.
Palaemon (Macrobrachium) latidactylus: De Man: 1902: 805.
Palaemon lampropus De Man, 1892: 493, pl. 29: figure 49 [type locality: Celebes and Timor,
Indonesia]; Kemp, 1918a: 267; Suvatti, 1937: 49; 1967: 139.
Macrobrachium latidactylus: Holthuis, 1950: 239, figure 50; 1980: 97; Costa, 1979: 57;
Naiyanetr, 1980: 17; 1992: 18; Yeo et al., 1999: 236.

Central Thailand. One W (CU ), Kut Island, Gulf of Thailand, Trat, coll.
P. Naiyanetr, 8 April 1976.
South Thailand. Three WW, cl 19.0–22.0 mm (CU 1997.105), Trang, 29 October
1988; 1 W, cl 11.5 mm, 3 XX, cl 8–12.8 mm, 1 ovigerous X, cl 7.5 mm, eggs 0.4×0.6 mm
(ZRC 2000.2601), Ranong Province: Kapoe District: Klong Ban Man waterfall,
along highway 4 milestone, 22 km to Kapoe, 9°27∞24.2◊N, 98°30∞31.1◊E, coll.
D. C. J. Yeo et al., 12 August 1997.

Macrobrachium latidactylus was recorded from Patani river, southern Thailand
by Kemp (1918a) and Suvatti (1937) as Palaemon lampropus De Man, 1892, a name
that was synonymized with M. latidactylus by Holthuis (1950). Naiyanetr (1998:
32) also listed the species from Ko Kud, Trat, Eastern Thailand.
Macrobrachium latidactylus has been reported from Sri Lanka (Costa, 1979),
Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, southern Thailand (Holthuis, 1950; Johnson, 1963;
Chace and Bruce, 1993; Yeo et al., 1999), Hainan (Yu, 1936; Liu et al., 1990),
Taiwan (Hwang and Yu, 1982; Shy and Yu, 1998) and the Ryukyu Islands
(Shokita, 1979).