Caridina, H. Milne-Edwards, 1837

Cai, Y., 2006, Atyid shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) of the Ryukyu Islands, southern Japan, with descriptions of two new species, Journal of Natural History 40 (38 - 40), pp. 2123-2172 : 2134-2135

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Caridina View in CoL typus H. Milne Edwards, 1837

Caridina View in CoL typus H. Milne Edwards, 1837, p 363, Pl. 25, figs. 4, 5 [type locality: unknown].

Caridina View in CoL typus: Kamita 1963, p 5, fig. 5; Shokita and Nishijima 1977, p 187; Hayashi, 1989c, p 310, fig.168; Shokita 2002, p 164; 2003, p 249, figs. 18G, 19C, 20L; Shokita et al. 2002b, p 76; Shokita et al. 2003a, p 101; 2003b, p 117; Cai and Anker 2004, p 236; Cai et al. 2006, p 412, figs. 13–15.

Caridina exilirostris Stimpson, 1860, p 98 View in CoL [type locality: Okinawa (Loo Choo) Island, Ryukyu Islands, Japan].

Material examined

Syntypes: 3 females, cl 7.0– 8.4 mm, MNHN-Na 930, no date. Neotype of Caridina exilirostris : ovigerous female, cl 7.4 mm, NSMT, Okuma River, Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands, coll. P. K. L. Ng et al., 31 May 1998. Others: 3 females, cl 3.0– 3.2 mm, 4 males, cl 4.4– 4.7 mm, upstream of Nakama river , Iriomote Island , Ryukyu Islands , coll. M. Tomokuni, 3 November 1985; 1 female, cl 7.7 mm, upper of Kawauchi-gawa River , Amami-oshima Island , Ryukyu Islands , coll. M. Takeda, 15 July 1988; 1 female, cl 54 mm, URB1230 View Materials , Sumiyoh-gawa River , Amami-ohshima Island , Ryukyu Islands , coll. M. Takeda, 17 July 1988; 1 male, cl 4.8 mm, 1 ovigerous female, cl 6.9 mm, URB1112 View Materials , Shino-kawa River , Amami-oshima Island , Ryukyu Islands , coll. M. Takeda, 17 July 1988; 4 females, cl 5.4–6.8 mm, URB1182 View Materials , Kawauchi-gawa River , Amami-ohshima Island , Ryukyu Islands , coll. M. Takeda, 15 July 1988; 3 males, 4.9–5.9 mm, 4 females, cl 6.5–7.5 mm, 2 ovigerous females, cl 6.1–6.5 mm, URB1218 View Materials , Kawauchi-gawa River , Amami-ohshima Island , Ryukyu Islands , coll. Takeda, 18 July 1988; 1 male, cl 4.2 mm, 2 females, cl 4.8–5.2 mm, 2 ovigerous females, cl 5.2–5.6 mm, URB1135 View Materials , Kanyu-gawa River , Amami-ohshima Island , Ryukyu Islands , coll. M. Takeda, 16 July 1988 .

Habitat

Rivers and streams which discharge to the sea.

Remarks

Cai et al. (2006) recently designated a neotype for C. exilirostris Stimpson, 1860 from Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands, and synonymized it with Caridina typus. This is the most common species found from the Ryukyu Islands.

Distribution

Indo-West Pacific.

References

Cai Y, Anker A. 2004. On a collection of freshwater shrimps (Crustacea Decapoda Caridea) from the Philippines, with descriptions of five new species. Tropical Zoology 17: 233 - 266.

Hayashi K-I. 1989 c. Prawns, shrimps and lobsters from Japan (48). Family Atyidae-Genus Caridina (2). Aquabiology 63: 310 - 314 [in Japanese].

Kamita T. 1963. Freshwater shrimps and prawns of Amami-oshima, Yaku-shima and Tanega-shima (Further studies on the freshwater shrimps, prawns and crawfishes of Japan 1961, Pt. 1). Bulletin of Shimane University (Natural Science) 13: 1 - 28 (in Japanese with English summary).

Milne Edwards H. 1837. Histoire naturelle des Crustaces, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. vol. 2, p 1 - 532, atlas, plates 1 - 14.

Shokita S, Nishijima S. 1977. Land and inland water crustaceans of north-eastern Ryukyu, the Ryukyu Islands. Ecological Studies of Nature Conservation of the Ryukyu Islands III: 185 - 202.

Shokita S, Nagai T, Fujita Y, Naruse T, Ito A, Nagamatsu T, Yamazaki T, Shinjo K, Nagata Y. 2002 b. Distribution and abundance of crustaceans in the Ohura River mangrove swamp of Okinawa Island, Japan, pp 73 - 86. In: A Comprehensive Study for Mangrove Ecosystem in Okinawa. Okinawa: Research Institute for Subtropics [in Japanese].

Shokita S, Fujita Y, Nagai T, Ito A, Kawahara T, Noho H. 2003 a. Distribution and abundance of crustaceans in the mangrove swamp and upper reaches of the Nagura River, Ishigaki Island, Japan, pp 97 - 111. In: A Comprehensive Study for Mangrove Ecosystem in Okinawa. Okinawa: Research Institute for Subtropics [in Japanese].

Stimpson W. 1860. Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septemtrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, C. Ringgold et J. Rodgers, observavit et descriptist. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia 1860 (January): 22 - 47.