Caridina nilotica (P. Roux, 1833)

Mazancourt, Valentin De, Mennesson, Marion, Marquet, Gérard & Keith, Philippe, 2025, Revision of the species of Caridina (Decapoda: Atyidae) from the Western Indian Ocean islands with description of a new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 1007, pp. 57-86 : 62

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.1007.2995

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8037ABB8-4C81-4340-A8F4-42D1BFE638D4

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FCE86D-FFC7-DF28-1051-5CD696B6FC89

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scientific name

Caridina nilotica
status

 

Caridina nilotica View in CoL species group

Diagnosis

Slender morphology, with a mostly long rostrum (longer than the antennular peduncle) but variable, the antennal spine ventral to the inferior orbital angle, a long antennular peduncle (subequal to carapace length), segments of walking legs slender, a typical dorsal hump over the third abdominal somite, a long sixth abdominal somite (always more than half of carapace length), a small pre-anal carina sometimes bearing an acute spine, a moderate number of spinules on the uropodal diaeresis (<15), fewer, medium to short and terminal setae on the telson and a subtriangular endopod of the first male pleopod with or without an appendix on the subdistal outer margin or even placed at the distal end. An oblique red band on the cephalothorax is very characteristic.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Atyidae

Genus

Caridina

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