Caridina celebensis De Man, 1892

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 : 2140-2141

Caridina celebensis De Man, 1892

Caridina serratirostris var. celebensis De Man, 1892a, p 385 , pl. 23: fig. 28f–h [type locality: river at Palopo , Luwu, Sulawesi (Celebes), Indonesia].

Caridina celebensis: Bouvier 1925, p 220 ; Holthuis 1978, p 39, fig. 14a–i; Yeo et al. 1999, p 214, figs. 8a–k, 9a–e; Shokita 2003, p 250, fig. 19K; Cai and Shokita 2006, p 247 .

Caridina serratirostris koterai Kamita, 1951, p 5 , figs. A–G [type locality: Honshu Island , Japan]

Caridina serratirostris celebensis: Kamita 1961, p 74 ; 1963, p 11, fig. 11; Fujino 1972, p 8, fig. 12; Shokita 1975, p 119.

Caridina leptocarpa Liang and Yan, 1988, p 15 , figs. 1–9 [type locality: Min Jiang (River), Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China].

Caridina leptocarpa: Liang and Zhou 1993, p 231 .

Paracaridina leptocarpa: Liang 2004, p 318 , fig. 155.

Material examined

Two ovigerous females, cl 3.9–4.1 mm, ZRC 2004.0575 , upper stream of Tima River , about 4 km from river mouth, Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands, coll. Y. Cai, N. K. Ng, T. Naruse and S. Islam, 11 June 2000 ; 1 ovigerous female, cl 4.5 mm, Yakugachi River, Amami-ohshima, Ryukyu Islands , 30 July 1992 ; 2 ovigerous females, cl 4.8–5.3 mm, Tabaru River, Yonaguni Island , coll. S. Shokita, 31 March 2000 ; 26 ovigerous females, cl 3.2–4.1 mm, 7 females, cl 2.1–3.4 mm, 2 males, cl 2.4–2.5 mm, ZRC 2004.0576 , 128 ° 04.609E 26 ° 33.429N upstream of Tima River, about 1–2 km from river mouth, Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands , pH 7.4, coll. Y. Cai, N. K. Ng, T. Naruse and S. Islam, 11 June 2000 ; 1 ovigerous female, cl 4.7 mm, ZRC, Okuma River, Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands , 31 May 1998 ; 2 females, cl 4.1–4.2 mm, ZRC, Tima River, Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands , 25 April 1998 ; 1 female, cl 2.9 mm, ZRC 2004.0577 , upper Hiji fall, Hiji River, Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands , 4 November 1987 .

Habitat

Lower reaches of rivers and streams which discharge to the sea.

Remarks

Caridina celebensis was recently reviewed by Cai and Shokita (2006). It is characterised by the absence of an arthrobranch on the base of the first pereiopod. Caridina celebensis is distributed from Sulawesi, Indonesia to Honshu, Japan.

Distribution

Japan, China, Philippines, Sulawesi.