Comments on Palaemon rosenbergii De Man, 1879 (currently Macrobrachiumrosenbergii; Crustacea, Decapoda): proposed conservation of usage by designation ofa neotype

摘要

I fully support the application to conserve the name Macrobrachium rosenbergii forthe commercially farmed freshwater prawn species we all know as Macrobrachiumrosenbergii dacqueti (or Macrobrachium dacqueti) as proposed by Dr Daisy Woworand Prof. Peter Ng. Keeping the name as such would avoid unnecessary confusionespecially among aquaculture scientists and industry practitioners who have knownthe species as M. rosenbergii from scientific and popular publications. I together withother colleagues at SEAFDEC/AQD have been working on this commercial speciesas well as the other native Philippine species (proposed as Macrobrachium wallacei)to date and would like to be certain of the standard scientific names as we write aboutour research results in scientific publications.