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Species checklist of fresh/brackishwater prawns genus Macrobrachium in Kenya available at the National Museums of Kenya's Natural History Collections, Invertebrates Zoology Section
Version 1.0 published by National Museums of Kenya on Nov 6, 2019
Kenya is rich in aquatic biodiversity including the freshwater prawns genus Macrobrachium (Palaeomonidae: Decapoda) which are important in fisheries as human food sources. However, except for a few specimens of previously unindentified Macrobrachium species, there was no national reference collection of Macrobrachium species housed in the scientific collection of National Museums of Kenya despite specimens of similar species deposited in other International Museums. This greatly hampered local research and utilization patterns including potential aquaculture of Macrobrachium species that are known to be taxonomically difficult group. To establish the current status of Macrobrachium species in Kenya, an ecological study was carried out along rivers Tana and Athi in Kenya between the year 2015 and 2018. Occurrence of four species namely; Macrobrachium rude, M. equidens, M. lepidactylus and M. dolichodactylus in Kenya was confirmed using both morphological and genetic analysis to establish correct identification of the species. The morphological analysis was carried out in Kenya at National Museums of Kenya while genetic analysis was carried out at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University of Frankfurt/Main in Germany. This datasubset presents the checklist of four species that were recorded. The specimens are deposited in the Invertebrate scientific collection of the National Museums of Kenya (NMK), Nairobi.
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How to cite
Please be aware, this is an old version of the dataset. Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Kochey J, Gikungu M, Kioko E, Kairo J, Klaus P S (2019): Species checklist of fresh/brackishwater prawns genus Macrobrachium in Kenya available at the National Museums of Kenya's Natural History Collections, Invertebrates Zoology Section. v1.0. National Museums of Kenya. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.museums.or.ke/ipt/resource?r=macro&v=1.0
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is National Museums of Kenya. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License.
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This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 6e3f6699-5a84-4b28-8d80-8d1dd77d6c14. National Museums of Kenya publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Kenya.
Keywords
Occurrence; Macrobrachium; prawns; Palaemonidae; Genetic analysis; Specimens; National Museums of Kenya; Zoology; ; Specimen
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Geographic Coverage
Along rivers Tana and Athi in Kenya and some selected coastal areas
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-4.478, 33.662], North East [5.178, 41.484] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Genus | Macrobrachium (fresh/brackishwater Prawns) |
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Project Data
The project aims to improve our knowledge of the diversity and status of freshwater prawns genus Macrobrachium in Kenya that play a role in food security. This occurrence datasubset was built from field surveys conducted between 2015 to 2018 along rivers Tana and Athi in Kenya .
| Title | Species of fresh/brackishwater prawns genus Macrobrachium in Kenya available at the National Museums of Kenya's Natural History Collections, Invertebrates Zoology Section |
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| Funding | DAAD scholarship Reference Number: 91531520 NACOSTI Reference scholarship Letter: NACOSTI/PNS/DAAD/027 |
| Study Area Description | Wet preserved collection at NMK. The study was carried along rivers Tana (from Mt. Kenya 3600m) and Athi (Aberdares range from 2400m) in Kenya to the coast and also some areas along the Kenya coast. Both rivers drain into Indian Ocean where interaction of fresh and seawater occurs that is known to influence the breeding behavior of prawns. |
| Design Description | Prawns were sampled mainly using beach seine nets and traps but also electrofishers in the upstream stream sites. They were later preserved in ethanol after correct identification. |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.museums.or.ke/ipt/resource?r=macro |
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