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Macrobrachium rosenbergii (giant river prawn)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Macrobrachium rosenbergii, also known as the giant river prawn, giant freshwater prawn, Malaysian prawn, freshwater scampi (especially in India: in West Bengal it is called golda chingdi), or cherabin, is a species of freshwater shrimp native to the Indo-Pacific region, northern Australia and Southeast Asia. This species (as well as other Macrobrachium) is commercially important for its value as a food source. It is commonly called ulang or uwang in the Philippines.
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Predators

Carettochelys insculpta (Pig-nosed Turtle, Pitted-Shelled Turtle, Warrajan)[1]
Lates calcarifer (White sea bass)[2]
Pristis microdon (Freshwater sawfish)[3]
Scleropages jardinii (Saratoga)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Temnosewellia neqae[4]

External References

Citations

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♦ 1Dry-season Distribution and Ecology of Carettochelys insculpta (Chelonia : Carettochelydidae) in Kakadu National Park, Northern Australia, Arthur Georges and Rodney Kennett, Aust. Wildl. Res., 1989, 16, 323-35
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3Freshwater Sawfish Pristis microdon Latham, 1794 (Chondrichthyes : Pristidae) in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, DEAN C. THORBURN, DAVID L. MORGAN, ANDREW J. ROWLAND & HOWARD S. GILL, Zootaxa 1471: 27–41 (2007)
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0