RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Bate, On a new genus, with four new species, of freshwater prawns. CUL-DAR81.154. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).
Darwin cited this in Descent 1: 331, n6: "See a paper by Mr. C. Spence Bate, with figures, in 'Proc. Zoolog. Soc.' 1868, p. 363; and on the nomenclature of the genus, ibid. p. 585. I am greatly indebted to Mr. Spence Bate for nearly all the above statements with respect to the chelæ of the higher crustaceans."
C. Spence Bate. 1868. On a new genus, with four new species, of freshwater prawns. Proceedings of the Zoological Society (28 May): 363-368.
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Proc. Z. Soc. 1868 p. 363.
C. Spence Bate on a freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium) ?? with 2nd pr [pair] of legs in male longer than the entire length of the animal. (See last no of Z. Proc)
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