Caridina fernandoi Arudpragasam

Mandal, Sudipta & Deepa, J., 2021, Freshwater Decapods of Godavari River, Bhadrachalam, Telangana, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 121 (1), pp. 39-45 : 41

2. Caridina fernandoi Arudpragasam & Costa, 1962

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1984. Caridina kempi : Jalihal & Sankolli, Rec. zool. Surv. India. Occ. Paper No. 69: 13.

2019. Caridina fernandoi : Werner et al., Zoologischer Anzeiger: 16.

Material examined: FBRC / ZSI /INV/1778, 2 ex., Godavari River , intake well ITC, Iravandi , Khammam dist .

Diagnosis: Rostrum formula, rostrum reaches up to the end of 2nd segment of antennal peduncle but not reaches up to the end of the antennal scale; 1st cheliped stout, palm sub equal to finger, a tuft of hair with chela, carpus with deep anterior excavation; 2ndcheliped also stout, more or less equal to 1 st cheliped, a tuft of hair with chela; Isocheim of its 5 th pereopod bears a small spine; abdomen smooth without any abdominal hump, berried females carries around 300 to 370 eggs measuring 0.6×0.4 mm; endopod of 1st pleopod of male obtusely triangular, appendix masculine 0.3 times as long as endopod; 6 pairs of movable spines, terminal pair flanking the posterior-lateral angles of telson, posterior margin ‘V’ shaped posses 7 long plumose setae; Uropods exceeding tip of the telson, suture in exopod across the middle with 15-21 movable spines.

Distribution: India- Kerala, Karnataka, Telangana. Elsewhere: Sri Lanka.

Figures

Figure 3. A. Caridina fernandoi Arudpragasam & Costa, 1962; B. Caridina shenoyi Jalihal & Sankolli 1984; C. Macrobrachium malcolmosonii malcolmsonii (H. M. Edwards, 1844); D. Macrobrachium lamarrei lamarrei (H. M. Edwards, 1837); E. Macrobrachium sp.; F. Barytelphusa cunicularis (Westwood in Sykes, 1836).