Caridina, H. Milne Edwards, 1837

Cai, Y. & Ng, P. K. L., 2009, The freshwater shrimps of the genera Caridina and Parisia from karst caves of Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia, with descriptions of three new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Atyidae), Journal of Natural History 43 (17 - 18), pp. 1093-1114 : 1094

Caridina typus H. Milne Edwards, 1837

Caridina typus H. Milne Edwards, 1837, p. 363, pl. 25, figs 4, 5 (type locality: unknown).

Caridina typus: De Man, 1892, p. 367; Cai and Anker 2004, p. 236; Cai et al. 2006, p. 412, figs 13–15; Cai and Shokita, 2006, p. 2134 ; von Rintelen et al., 2007, p. 1037; von Rintelen et al. 2008, p. 2243.

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

Material examined

One female, cl 7.2 mm, one ovigerous female, cl 8.0 mm, ZRC, Gua (Cave) Tanette, Kappang, Maros, Sulawesi, coll. P. Leclerc, 15 August 1990 ; 2 ovigerous females, cl 7.8–8.1 mm, ZRC, Kawasan Obyek Wisat, Bantimurung, Maros, Sulawesi, coll. Y. Cai, 29 December 2004 .

Remarks

Cai et al. (2006) recently designated a neotype for C. exilirostris Stimpson, 1860 , from the type locality of Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands, and synonymized it with Caridina typus H. Milne Edwards, 1837. This is the most widely distributed species in the Indo-West Pacific. Caridina typus has been reported from subterranean rivers of West Samar Island, and Palawan Island, the Philippines ( Cai and Anker, 2004). In Sulawesi, C. typus has previously been reported by De Man (1892), and recently examined genetically by von Rintelen et al. (2007, 2008).

Distribution

Indo-West Pacific.