World Journal of Zoology 15 (1): 01-09, 2020
ISSN 1817-3098
© IDOSI Publications, 2020
DOI: 10.5829/idosi.wjz.2020.01.09
A Checklist of Freshwater Prawn Species of the Palaemonidae
Family in the Northwest Part of Bangladesh
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Madhab Ray, 1Imran Hoshan, 1Imran Parvez and 2Krishna Chandra Roy
1
Department of Fisheries Biology and Genetics,
Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University Dinajpur 5200, Bangladesh
2
Department of Fisheries Management,
Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University Dinajpur 5200, Bangladesh
Abstract: To formulate information on the freshwater prawn species and to identify any species at a glance
clearly and simply a checklist of freshwater prawn species (Palaemonidae) collected from Northwest part of
Bangladesh was prepared. A total of Sixty samples of freshwater prawn from the waterbody of Dinajpur,
Rangpur and Thakurgoan districts of Bangladesh were collected and used. Samples were observed through
six morphological characters namely body color, the number of chela, rostrum shape, rostrum teeth, abdomen
shape, segments size of walking leg and eight morphometric characters i.e. Total length (TL), Rostrum length
(RL), Cephalothorax length (CL), Cephalothorax height (CH), Second pleon segment height (SSH), Sixth pleon
segment length (SISL), TeL (Telson length), TeW (Telson width). After observing the morphological and
morphometric characters a total of six species were found to be different and identified by checking with
previous literature. The identified species were Macrobrachium lanchesteri, M. palaemonides, M. lamarrei,
M. idella, M. dolicodectylus and M. latidactylus. Although there was availability of M. resenbergii sometimes
in the open water bodies of northwest Bangladesh but it was only during flooding season. This study
synthesized a concise idea about the available freshwater prawn in Bangladesh. Several consecutive studies
including DNA barcoding are needed to formulation exact information on the detail record of freshwater
Palaemonid prawn in the waterbodies of Bangladesh.
Key words: Checklist
Prawn
Macrobrachium
Biodiversity
are mostly freshwater species. Several studies on the
biodiversity and taxonomy of palaemonid prawn had been
conducted by De Man [4, 5], Chopra [6], Kunju [7], Kurian
& Sebastian [8], Jayachandran [9]. The family contains
more than 950 species under 137 genera and two
subfamilies [10]. Jayachandran [9] recorded 75 species
belonging to 8 genera of palaemonid prawns from India.
Although different world wide survey, identification and
classification of prawn and shrimp have been studied by
many investigators, a little work has been done with this
family in Bangladesh. A total of 62 prawn and shrimp were
recorded from Bangladesh; of which 6 are fully freshwater
species, 14 are both freshwater and brackish water species
[11]. Cai and Ng [12] published a taxonomy on freshwater
prawn. Moreover Cai and Shokita [13] has made a report
on the collection of freshwater shrimp from Philippine.
INTRODUCTION
Crustaceans are diverse in form and live around the
world in a variety of habitats and they are the most
important to humans- as crabs, lobsters and shrimps are
widely fished and consumed around the world. Prawn is
a common name for small aquatic crustaceans that
contains an exoskeleton and ten legs [1]. They are very
much important crustaceans having palatable taste which
are the major export item of Bangladesh with great market
demand at home and abroad.
Palaemonidae is a prawn family in the order Decapoda
was noted by Rafinesque C. S. in 1815 [2] as Palaemonia
[3]. It is one of the successfully diversified group of
crustacean that are found in oceans, estuaries and rivers.
But can be found mainly in fresh water habitats as they
Corresponding Author: Imran Hoshan, Department of Fisheries Biology and Genetics, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and
Technology University Dinajpur 5200, Bangladesh.
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Raghunathan and Valurmathi [14] have been documented
a checklist of freshwater prawns in Tamil Nadu, India.
Mariappan and Jasmin [15] also have been made studies
on freshwater prawns of Family Palaemonidae in Tamil
Nadu India. Arumugam [16] recorded 24 species of
freshwater prawns in Tamil Nadu, India. In Myanmar
which is our neighboring country there are 8 species of
palaemonidae prawn are found [17].
A species checklist reflects a precision by providing
clarity at a glance clearly and simply. To gather
knowledge about freshwater prawns, researchers need the
updated checklist of Palaemonidae family. But in
Bangladesh the studies on freshwater prawn under
Palaemonidae family is very little and most of the prawn
cannot be identified due to lack of checklist. Therefore
this study aimed to identify the available freshwater
prawns of Northwest Bangladesh through morphological
identification based on available literature.
(the Teesta river-latitude 25°47´17.3´´ North and longitude
89°26´21.9´´ East), (the Jamuneshwari river- latitude
25°40´34.2´´ North and longitude 89°03´43.0´´ East),
(the Tangon river- latitude 25°49´32.8´´ North and
longitude 88°23´07.5´´ East) and (the Kulic river- latitude
25°53´22.6´´ North and longitude 88°16´11.5´´ East)
respectively from three districts (Figure 1). For study
purpose collected samples were sorted out and
photographs of the specimen were taken by using Nikon
d3300 DSLR camera. Ten representative specimens of
each individual were selected after and finally preserved
in 70% Ethanol. Each specimens were then measured and
then carefully preserved for further studies.
Morphometric and Morphological Observation: Six
morphological characters viz. body color, number of
chela, rostrum shape, rostrum teeth, abdomen shape
and segments size of walking leg were observed and
used to identifying species. eight morphometric
characters i.e. Total length (TL), Rostrum length (RL),
Cephalothorax length (CL), Cephalothorax height (CH),
Second pleon segment height (SSH), Sixth pleon
segment length (SISL), TeL (Telson length), TeW
(Telson width) of the specimen were measured by using
slide-calipers, normal centimeter scale, compus and
forceps. The mophometric and morphological observation
were conducted based on the Dineshbabu et al. [18]
(Figure 2). The observed taxonomic characters were then
checked and identified according to Cai and Ng [12] and
Mar and Myint [17].
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Specimen collection and preservation
The study was conducted for a period of one year
effected from July-2018 to June-2019. Prawn samples were
collected bimonthly from the fishermen of the three
districts (Dinajpur, Rangpur, Thakurgon) of northern
region of Bangladesh. Two rivers from each district
(the Punarbhaba river-latitude 25°36´34.9´´ North and
longitude 88°37´32.6´´ East), (the Atrai river-latitude
25°36´46.4´´ North and longitude 88°41´58.0´´ East),
Fig. 1: Location of the sample collecting site in the northwestern Bangladesh
K- Kulik river; t- Tangan river; P- Punarbhaba river; A- Atrai river; J- Jamuneswari river and T- Teesta river
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Fig. 2: Morphometric characters of Prawn
Total length (TL), Rostrum length (RL), Cephalothorax length (CL), Cephalothorax height (CH), Second pleon
segment height (SSH), Sixth pleon segment length (SISL), TeL (Telson length), TeW (Telson width).
The scientific naming of each species was based on
current valid names with the WoRMS (World Register of
Marine Species) [19], GBIF (Global Biodiversity
Information Facility) [20] and IRMNG (Interim Register
of Marine and Nonmarine Genera) [21] database for
taxonomic status (accepted/status unknown, synonyms,
alternate representations etc.). Taxonomic hierarchy
drawing was according to ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic
Information System) [22].
as research articles [7, 9, 10, 12,15, 23, 24], monographs
[16, 17, 25], manuals [3], books [1, 5, 10, 17], species
checklists [3, 14, 16, 27, 28] and technical reports [11].
RESULTS
Based on morphometric and morphological
observation and cross reviewing with available literature
a total of six freshwater prawn species under genus
Macrobrachium were recorded in this study (Table 1 and
Figure 3-7). Details of all the recorded species are shown
in Table 2.
Checklist Preparation: Preparation of the checklist was
based on the information from available literature such
Table 1: Recorded freshwater prawn species in the northwestern Bangladesh
SL No.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Species recorded
Macrobrachium lanchesteri (De Man, 1911)
Macrobrachium palaemonoides (Holthuis, 1950)
Macrobrachium lamarrei (H. Miline -Edwards, 1837)
Macrobrachium idella (Holigendorf, 1898)
Macrobrachium dolichodactylus (Hilgendorf, 1879)
Macrobrachium latidactylus (Thallwitz, 1891)
Systematic Position:
Kingdom: Animalia
Sub-kingdom: Bilateria
Infra-kingdom:Protostomia
Super-phylum: Ecdysozoa
Phylum : Arthropoda
Sub-Phylum : Crustacea Brünnich, 1772
Class: Malacostraca Latreille, 1802
Sub-class: Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892
Super-order: Eucarida Calman, 1904
Order: Decapoda Latreille, 1803
Sub-order: Pleocyemata Burkenroad, 1963
Infra-order: Caridea Dana, 1852
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Super-family: Palaemonoidea Rafinesque, 1815
Family: Palaemonidae Rafinesque, 1815
Sub-family: Palaemoninae Rafinesque, 1815
Genus: Macrobrachium Bate, 1868
Species: M. lanchesteri (De Man, 1911)
M. palaemonoides (Holthuis, 1950)
M. lamarrei (H. Miline -Edwards, 1837)
M. idella (Holigendorf, 1898)
M. dolichodactylus (Hilgendorf, 1879)
M. latidactylus (Thallwitz, 1891)
The result indicates the availability of only six fully
freshwater prawn of Palaemonidae family. It was also
found that M. rosenbergii was available sometimes in
the study area but this was during the period of
flooding. Among the six species only M. lanchesteri and
M. lamarrei were most available species from all the
locations. M. palaemonoides was available from almost all
of the locations except the Teesta river. M. idella was
unavailable in the Jamuneswari and Kulic river in contrast
to M. dolichodactylus which was not found in Tangan
and Kulic river. The M. latidactylus was the only species
that available in the Punarbhaba river, Dinajpur.
According to IUCN Red List [29] five of the recorded
species namely M. lanchesteri, M. lamarrei, M. idella,
M. dolichodactylus and M. latidactylus are categorized
as least concern (LC). The status of M. palaemonoides
falls into not evaluated (NE) category according to Global
Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) [30].
Abdominal Pleon Segments: Second abdominal Segments
Height (SSH) was around 1.25 times higher than the Sixth
abdominal Segments Length (SISL).
1. Macrobrachium lanchesteri (De Man, 1911)
(Figure 3)
Synonyms: Cryphiops lanchesteri (De Man, 1911)
Palaemon lanchesteri De Man, 1911
Palaemon paucidens Lanchester, 1901
Cephalothorax: 1.6 times longer than its height.
Telson: Telson slender, 3 times longer than wide.
2. Macrobrachium palaemonoides (Holthuis, 1950)
(Figure 4)
Synonyms: Tenuipedium palaemonoides (Holthuis, 1950)
Body Color: Body color is deep blackish
Rostrum: Elongated and curved upward; 4.2 times shorter
than total length. Upper margin with 7 teeth, lower margin
with 6 teeth; 2 to 3 teeth of the upper margin of rostrum
behind the orbit.
Rostral Formula: 2-3(3) +7-8(7)/5-7(6)
Second Periopods: Second pair is much larger and thicker
than first pair; carpus is longer than chela and 1.5 times
longer than merus. Chela slightly longer than merus.
Body Color: Body color is whitish-grey.
Abdominal Pleon segments: Second abdominal Segments
Height (SSH) was 1.3 times higher than the Sixth
abdominal Segments Length (SISL).
Rostrum: Straight, long and anteriorly slight upturned;
5.8 times shorter than total length. Upper
margin with 7 to 8 teeth; lower margin with 3
teeth; 2 teeth of the upper margin of rostrum
behind the orbit.
Telson: Telson slender and 3.6 times longer than wide.
3. Macrobrachium lamarrei (H. Miline Edwards, 1837)
(Figure 5)
Synonyms: Palaemon lamarrei H.Milne-Edwards, 1837
Rostral Formula: 4-6(5) +2/3-4(3)
Cephalothorax: 1.6 times longer than its height.
Sub Species: Macrobrachium lamarrei lamarroides
(Tiwari, 1952)
Macrobrachium lamarrei lamarrei (H. Milne-Edwards,
1837)
Second Periopods: Chela is shorter than carpus but longer
than merus; carpus is 1.4 times longer than merus.
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Body Color: Body color is Whitish-Grey with black spot
throughout the body.
5. Macrobrachium dolichodactylus (Hilgendorf, 1879)
(Figure 7)
Synonym: Macrobrachium scabriculum (Heller, 1862)
Rostrum: Elongated and slightly curved upward; 4.7
times shorter than total length. Upper margin with 7 to 8
teeth; lower margin with 6 to 8 teeth; 3 teeth of the upper
margin of rostrum behind the orbit.
Body Color: Body color is blackish with black spot on the
body.
Rostrum: Elongated and curved upward; 4.8 times shorter
than total length; upper margin with 6 to 9 teeth, lower
margin with 5 to 8 teeth; 2-3 teeth of the upper margin of
rostrum behind the orbit.
Rostral Formula: 4-5(4) +3-4(3)/6-8(7)
Cephalothorax: 1.6 times longer than its height.
Second Periopods: chela 1.35 times longer than carpus
and 1.7 times than merus; carpus is 1.2 times longer than
merus.
Rostral Formula: 4-6(4) +2-4(3)/6-8(6)
Abdominal Pleon segments: Second abdominal Segments
Height (SSH) was around 1.5 times higher than the Sixth
abdominal Segments Length (SISL).
Second Periopods: Chela is longer than carpus and merus;
carpus is longer than merus.
Cephalothorax: 1.6 times longer than its height.
Abdominal Pleon segments: Second abdominal Segments
Height (SSH) was around 1.8 times higher than the Sixth
abdominal Segments Length (SISL).
Telson Structure: Slightly broader and 3.3 times longer
than wide.
Telson Structure: Slender and 2.7 times longer than wide.
4. Macrobrachium idella (Holigendorf, 1898) (Figure 6)
Sub
Species:
Macrobrachium
idella
georgii
(Jayachandran & Joseph 1985)
6. Macrobrachium latidactylus (Thallwitz, 1891)
(Figure 8)
Synonym: Palaemon endehensis De Man, 1892
Palaemon lampropus De Man, 1892
Palaemon latidactylus Thallwitz, 1891
Macrobrachium idella idella (Hilgendorf 1898)
Body Color: Body color is blackish with black spot at
anterior and posterior portion
Body Color: Body color is greyish-green
Rostrum: Elongated and curved upward; 4.3 times shorter
than total length. Upper margin with 7 to 9 teeth; lower
margin with 5-8 teeth; 2 to 4 teeth of the upper margin of
rostrum behind the orbit.
Rostrum: Long and curved upward at anterior portion; 4
times shorter than total length; upper margin with 10 to 11
teeth, lower margin with 4-5 teeth; 2 to 3 teeth of the upper
margin of rostrum behind the orbit.
Rostral Formula: 4-5(4) +3-4(3)/6-8(6)
Rostral Formula: 8-9(8) +2-3(3)/4-5(5)
Cephalothorax: 1.7 times longer than its height.
Cephalothorax: 1.6 times longer than its height.
Second Periopods: Carpus is longer than chela and merus;
chela is slightly longer than merus.
Periopods: Chela is longer than carpus, carpus is longer
than merus.
Abdominal Pleon segments: Second abdominal Segments
Height (SSH) was around 1.3 times higher than the Sixth
abdominal Segments Length (SISL).
Abdominal Pleon segments: Second abdominal Segments
Height (SSH) was around 1.45 times higher than the Sixth
abdominal Segments Length (SISL).
Telson Structure: Slender and 3.3 times longer than wide.
Telson Structure: Slender and 2.7 times longer than wide.
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Fig. 2: Left view of M. lanchesteri
Fig. 3: Left view of M. palaemonoides
Fig. 4: Left view of M. lamarrei
Fig. 5: Left view of M. idella
Fig. 6: Left view of M. dolichodactylus
Fig. 7: Left view of M. latidactylus
Table 2: The available prawn species at different locations (‘+’ indicates presence and ‘-’indicates absence of species)
Species
Common Name
Local Name
M. lanchesteri
Riceland prawn/
Glass Shrimp
Kuncho river prawn
Slender river prawn
Goda river prawn
Sissor river prawn
Dhonua Chingri
*LC
+
+
+
+
+
+
Gura Chingri
Chikna Chingri
-
**NE
LC
*LC
*LC
*LC
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
-
+
+
+
-
+
+
+
-
+
+
+
-
+
+
-
M. palaemonoides
M. lamarrei
M. idella
M. dolichodactylus
M. latidactylus
Threatened Status
Presence and absence of species at different river
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Punarbhaba Atrai Teesta
Jamuneshwari Tangon
Kulic
*Source IUCN Red List, 2020 ** Source GBIF
on the fauna of shrimps and prawns have been
intermittent and literature on the freshwater crustaceans
of Bangladesh is rather scanty which makes it difficult to
assess the exact number and types of the prawn.
Although our neighboring countries have quite enough
DISCUSSION
Prawn constitutes a much important export
commodity in Bangladesh with a total production of 4.381
million MT in Fiscal year 2018-19 [31]. But investigations
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information on the shrimps and prawns fauna of fresh and
brackish water, there is little information about the
palaemonid prawn of Bangladesh.
Of the 62 numbers of prawn and shrimp species in
Bangladesh 6 are fully fresh water species, 14 are both
freshwater and brackish water species [11]. Mar and
Myint [17] described eight species of palemonid
prawns from Magway Environs of neighboring
country Myanmar namely M. aemulum, M. cavernicola,
M. clymene, M. lamarrei, M. lanchesteri, M. latidactylus,
M. palaemonoides, M. rosenbergii.
In this study, six species of freshwater prawn
under palemonidae family namely M. lanchesteri,
M. palaemonoides,
M.
lamarrei,
M. idella,
M. dolichodactylus and M. latidactylus were recorded
from the Northern region of Bangladesh.
Jayachandran et al. [32] divided the genus
Macrobrachium into two subgenera; the subgenus
Macrobrachium are those species which have equal or
subequal chelae in second pair of pereiopods and the
subgenus Allobrachium have unequal chelae. In the
present work, In M. latidactylus the second pairs of
pereiopods are distinctly unequal while in other species
are found to be equal in shaped and their length in this
study.
The most important characters to identify the
freshwater prawn species are armature of rostrum, number
of dorsal and ventral rostral teeth, proportion of rostrum,
size and proportion of the carpus, merus and dactylus of
second pereiopod and proportion of the length of telson
and inner spine of telson [25].
In all the six species, there are differences not only in
the shape of the rostrum but also in the proportion of
carpus and merus; carpus of the second pereiopod is
generally longer than chela and merus in M. lanchesteri,
M. palaemonoides, M. idella, but in M. dolichodactylus,
M. latidactylus and M. lamarrei chela of the second
pereiopod is generally longer than carpus and merus.
And there are also significant differences in rostrum size,
rostrum teeth.
Cai and Ng [12] recorded M. Lenchesteri with straight
and slightly upturned Rostrum and having 6-7 upper and
3-4 lower teeth with carpus of second pereiopod usually
longer than chela and very slender telson which are much
similar to present findings.
Mar and Myint [17] found freshwater Palaemonid
prawns from Magway Environs, Myanmer with very much
similar findings.
Collection of prawn is quiet difficult task as the
availability of prawn depends on certain season.
Furthermore different species is available at different
time that makes the task rather tedious and laborious.
M. lamarrei the more common species among the six
species found in the present study.
Raghunathan and Valarmathi [24] reported five
species of Macrobrachium along with M. lamarrei
others were M. malcolmsonii (H. Milne Edwards, 1844),
M. peguense (Tiwari, 1952) M. scabriculum (Heller, 1952)
M.unikarnatakae lalihal et al., 1988. Cai & Ng [12]
described freshwater palaemonid prawns of Myanmar
having M. lamarrei in common.
The availability of M. latidactylus among the six
palaemonid species found in this study was scanty
although the IUCN status of the species is Least
Concern and was only available in the Punarbhaba
river of Dinajpur district. The possible cause of the
availability was the Punarbhaba is a tributaries of the
river Ganges.
For the maintenance and management of fisheries
biodiversity of Bangladesh accurate and continuous
updating of data on the fish as well as prawn species is a
time demand. The checklist of these obtained species was
prepared on the basis of applying the idea developed from
literature. According to our result, it can be easily said
that the number of species of palemonid prawns in whole
Bangladesh would be above six. Although identification
of the freshwater prawn under palemonidae family is quite
difficult due to great morphological variations, further
studies on freshwater prawn is needed in whole country.
Molecular studies can be a sophisticated tool to identify
ambiguous species properly in order to append the list of
palaemonid species in Bangladesh more authentically.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We are highly grateful to the Ministry of Science and
Technology of the Government of the People’s Republic
of Bangladesh for providing fund through the National
Science and Technology (NST) fellowship to conduct the
research. We also thankful to Department of Fisheries
Biology and Genetics of Hajee Mohammad Danesh
Science and Technology University, Dinajpur,
Bangladesh for providing structural facilities.
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