Macrobrachium lar (Fabricius, 1798)
Labeled as "Palaemon ornatus Oliv., Ngi Hld, Solomond Island, gift 524 (Museum of Sydney), Haswell type 1882". Male specimen. RBINS INV. 11514. Re-identified as Macrobrachium lar by C. d'Udekem d'Acoz on 02.12.2016, in using Carpenter & Niem (1998). The present specimen belongs to a batch of crustaceans received in 1882 by RBINS from Haswell, and which were abusively registered as "topotypes".
Filed under:
Topotype