Laboratory Rearing of Larvae of the Palaemonid Shrimp Macrobrachium Acanthurus (Wiegmann, 1836)

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LABORATORY REARING OF LARVAE OF THE PALAEMONID SHRIMP MACROBRACHIUM ACANTHURUS (WIEGMANN, 1836) BY P. C. CHOUDHURY Zoology Department, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica INTRODUCTION Macrobrachium acanthurus is a palaemonid shrimp which lives in brackish and fresh waters. It is known to occur in the eastern part of America, from Georgia (U.S.A.) to southern Brazil, and the West Indies (Holthuis, 1952). In Jamaica this species is found in fresh and brackish waters at low altitudes. Little work has been done on artificial rearing of larvae, juveniles and adults of the shrimps belonging to the genus Macrobrachium. Choudhury (1971) has