Macrobrachium faustinum is a species of freshwater shrimp that was first described in 1857. M. faustinum is dark brown and found from Florida to the Caribbean and southwards to Venezuela.
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Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Caribbean longarm shrimp being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Macrobrachium japonicum
- Macrobrachium placidulum
- Macrobrachium formosense
- Macrobrachium latimanus
- Macrobrachium americanum
- Macrobrachium carcinus
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Palaemonidae
- Genus
- Macrobrachium
- Species
- Macrobrachium faustinum
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