Bloom Native gardener's
field companion

Explore

Field report Layers Search
Log in Sign up
  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Malacostracans
  5. Decapods
  6. Palaemonid Shrimps
  7. River Prawns

genus

River Prawns

Macrobrachium

Includes
4 native 2 introduced 1 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Tahitian Prawn present
  • Oriental River Prawn present
  • Giant River Prawn present
  • Bigclaw River Shrimp native
  • Hancock's River Prawn
  • Cinnamon River Prawn native
  • Riceland Prawn
  • Caribbean Longarm Shrimp native
  • Ohio River Prawn native
  • Buchura River Prawn
  • Hawaii River Prawn native
  • Brackish River Prawn

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native river prawns All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Bigclaw River Shrimp Macrobrachium carcinus 418 observations
  • Cinnamon River Prawn Macrobrachium acanthurus 200 observations
  • Caribbean Longarm Shrimp Macrobrachium faustinum 87 observations
  • Ohio River Prawn Macrobrachium ohione 75 observations
  • Hawaii River Prawn Macrobrachium grandimanus 28 observations

We can't find the internet

Attempting to reconnect

Something went wrong!

Attempting to reconnect