The names of decapod and stomatopod Crustacea from Tahiti, French Polynesia, established by Anthony Curtiss in 1938 and 1944 Author Ng, Peter K. L. Author Eldredge, Lucius G. Author Evenhuis, Neal L. text Zootaxa 2011 2011-11-16 3099 43 56 journal article 45981 10.5281/zenodo.206896 b4c7e4b1-cc25-42ef-91ae-a205918bf357 1175-5326 206896 Cancer teatae Curtiss, 1938 [ óura pape ] Palaemon lar Fabricius, 1798: 402 . Cancer teatae Curtiss, 1938: 162 . While several species of Macrobrachium are known from French Polynesia ( Marquet 1991 ; Keith & Vigneux 2002 ; Poupin & Juncker 2010 ), the description of the Tahiti river prawn (the size was recorded as “five inches long” ( Curtiss 1938: 161 ) with the second pereiopods just as long, makes it clear that Cancer teatae is Macrobrachium lar ( Fabricius, 1798 ) (Palaemonidae) . Holthuis (1980: 96) had already listed C. teatae as a junior synonym of M. lar . This identification is further substantiated with Curtiss’s Tahitian name, óura pape , being reported in Keith et al. (2002)