Macrobrachium scabriculum is a species of freshwater shrimp.

It is distributed in countries and territories around the Indian Ocean (East Africa, Madagascar, South Asia, Sumatra).

A kind of fur develop on the chelipeds of males.

Eggs produced by M. scabriculum are smaller in size, brownish in color, elliptical or oval in shape[4] and hatched larvae undergone migration to low saline water for completion its life cycle.

[5] Macrobrachium scabriculum inhabit fresh and brackish water of larger rivers and streams.