Case 3428Palaemon rosenbergiiDe Man, 1879 (currentlyMacrobrachiumrosenbergii; Crustacea, Decapoda): proposed conservation of usage by designation of a neotype

The purpose of this application, under Article 75.6 of the Code, is to conserve the usage of the specific name of Macrobrachium rosenbergii (De Man, 1879) for a commercially important giant freshwater prawn from Southeast Asia by designating a neotype. Recent taxonomic reappraisals show that the two subspecies of this prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii rosenbergii (De Man, 1879) and M. rosenbergii dacqueti (Sunier, 1925) are in fact distinct...