title: A new record of the giant freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium spinipes (Schenkel, 1902) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Taiwan, with notes on its taxonomy.
abstract: The giant freshwater prawn Macrobrachium spinipes (Schenkel, 1902) is recorded from Taiwan for the first time and extends the distribution of the species to north of the Tropic of Cancer. The Taiwanese specimens differ slightly from material from Indonesian Papua in the density of the spination of the adult second pereipods, the relative length of the ridge of the posterior submedian plate of thoracite sternite 4, and the color of the carapace, abdomen and pleural condyles.
authors.affiliation: Department of Aquaculture, National Penghu University, Penghu 880, Taiwan; Email: jyshy@npu.edu.tw.
authors.forename: Jhy-Yun
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Shy
authors.affiliation: Division of Zoology, Research Center for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Jalan Raya Jakarta Bogor Km 46, Cibinong 16911, Indonesia; Email: daisy_wowor@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Daisy
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wowor
authors.affiliation: Tropical Marine Science Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119260, Republic of Singapore; Email: peterng@nus.edu.sg.
authors.forename: Peter K L
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Ng
mesh_terms: D063147:Animal Distribution; D000825:Animal Structures / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D000818:Animals; D017753:Ecosystem; D005260:Female; D005618:Fresh Water; D008297:Male; D033541:Palaemonidae / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification*; D013624:Taiwan