Macrobrachium indicum is a species of freshwater shrimp of South India. It was first described in 1986.Jayachandran, K.V. & Joseph, N.I. (1986) On a new species of Macrobrachium (Decapoda, Palaemonidae) from the south-west coast of India. Crustaceana, 50 (2), 217–224. https://doi.org/10.1163/156854086x00232 This freshwater prawn was described from Vellayani Lake, Kerala. This species is closely related to M. australe and M. ustulatum.Mary, Ajina S., Jayachandran, K. V., Landge, Asha T., Gladston, Y. & Pavan-Kumar, A., 2019, Establishment of taxonomic status of Macrobrachium indicum Jayachandran & Joseph (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) through molecular characterization with a note on related species, pp. 174-182 in Zootaxa 4652 (1) on pages 175-177, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/3995581 It is a medium-sized prawn of genus Macrobrachium.
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