Caridina appendiculata Jalihal & Shenoy, 1998

Mazancourt, Valentin de, Boseto, David, Marquet, Gerard & Keith, Philippe, 2020, Solomon’s Gold Mine: Description or redescription of 24 species of Caridina (Crustacea: Decapoda: Atyidae) freshwater shrimps from the Solomon Islands, including 11 new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 696, pp. 1-86 : 18

Caridina appendiculata Jalihal & Shenoy, 1998

Figs 2H , 25C

Caridina appendiculata Jalihal & Shenoy, 1998: 128 .

Caridina appendiculata – Klotz, Karge & von Rintelen 2007: 7–9, figs 3 (in part)–4.— de Mazancourt et al. 2018c: 1433–1435, fig.4. — de Mazancourt et al. 2019a: 166, 169–170.

Material examined

SOLOMON ISLANDS – Kolombangara Island • 1 ♂, cl 3.5 mm; Zamba River ; 08°05.934´S, 157°00.830´E; 0 m a.s.l.; 9 Nov. 2015; P. Keith, C. Lord and G. Marquet leg.; MNHN-IU-2018-133 • 1 ♂, cl 3.6 mm; same collection data as for preceding; MNHN-IU-2018-134 • 1 ♀ ovig., cl 4.0 mm; Vanga 2 River ; 07°54.825´S, 156°57.762´E; 5 m a.s.l.; 18 Nov. 2015; P. Keith, C. Lord and G. Marquet leg.; DNA voucher: CA1494; MNHN-IU-2018-135 • 1 ♀ ovig., cl 4.1 mm; same collection data as for preceding; DNA voucher: CA1495; MNHN-IU-2018-136 • 1 ♂, cl 3.3 mm; same collection data as for preceding; MNHN-IU-2018-137. – Isabel Island • 1 specimen; Kia, Hobolito River ; 07.62419° S, 158.54004° E; 0–9 m a.s.l.; 24 Oct. 2019; P. Keith, C. Lord, R. Causse and D. Boseto leg.; DNA voucher: CA2502; MNHN .

Remarks

de Mazancourt et al. (2018c) recently redescribed C. appendiculata in detail. This species is known from Australia, Indonesia ( Flores, Obira and Sulawesi), Solomon Islands (Kolombangara, Isabel), Micronesia (Pohnpei), Palau and Vanuatu (Aneityum, Efate, Epi and Santo). This species lives in a typical brackish water environment (brackish water pool or lower part of rivers, near the estuary).

Figures

Fig. 2. Bayesian inference phylogenetic tree of the species studied. Numbers above branches are Bayesian posterior probabilities, numbers under branches are Maximum Likelihood bootstrap values. Results of the three species delimitation methods are indicated by the black bars on the right of the tree. Each bar represents a species recognized by the analysis.

Fig. 25. Live colourations.A. Caridina gracilirostris De Man, 1892 (MNHN-IU-2018-2804).B. Caridina neglecta Cai & Ng, 2007 (MNHN-IU-2018-2811). C. Caridina appendiculata Jalihal & Shenoy, 1998 (MNHN-IU-2018-135). D. Caridina brevidactyla Roux, 1919 (CA1503). E. Caridina choiseul sp. nov. (Choiseul Island). F. Caridina intermedia sp. nov. (MNHN-IU-2014-20847). G. Caridina mertoni Roux, 1911 (Kolombangara Island). Photographs by P. Keith (A–G).