Yixiong Cai

TL;DR: With the exception of Antarctica, freshwater shrimp are present in all biogeographical regions, however, the Oriental region harbours the majority of species, whilst the Nearctic and western Palaearctic are very species-poor.

TL;DR: The phylogenetic tree suggests that the last common ancestor of the Asian Macrobrachium laid numerous small eggs and had prolonged larval development in saline coastal waters after which the adults matured in freshwater habitats and invaded the highly acidic waters of freshwater and peat swamps two or three times.

TL;DR: Results suggest that the evolution of the freshwater prawn genus Macrobrachium was marked by rapid radiation, and most of the morphological characters commonly used to determine the taxonomy of genus evolved independently during the invasion of inland waters.

TL;DR: This first global assessment of extinction risk for a major group of freshwater invertebrates, caridean shrimps, finds that two species are extinct with a further 10 possibly extinct, and almost one third of species are either threatened or Near Threatened (NT).

TL;DR: The taxonomy of the palaemonid freshwater prawns of Myanmar is reviewed and 19 species are recorded, with one new species, Macrobrachium lanatum, which is closely allied to M. scabriculum.