Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Macrobrachium olfersii
camarón carideo, Shrimp caridean
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Malacostraca
Order
Decapoda
Suborder
Pleocyemata
Superfamily
Palaemonoidea
Family
Palaemonidae
Genus
Macrobrachium
Species
olfersii
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Macrobrachium birai Lobão, Melo & Fernandes, 1986, Macrobrachium holthuisi Genofre & Lobão, 1978, Palaemon consobrinus de Saussure, 1857, Palaemon Desausuri Heller, 1862, Palaemon olfersii Wiegmann, 1836, Palaemon potiporanga Müller, 1880 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Macrobrachium olfersii", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=9625. Accessed 6 November 2026.