Caridina weberi, De Man, 1892

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 : 40

Caridina weberi species group

Diagnosis

Robust morphology with a straight or bent rostrum, armed or not on the dorsal margin, without apical teeth, the antennal spine fused with the inferior orbital angle, antennular peduncle equal to or more than half of carapace in length, pterygostomian margin rounded, stout walking leg segments, the carpus of the first pereiopod often deeply excavated, a short sixth abdominal somite (around half of carapace length), a high pre-anal carina with no spine or a small one, a great number of spinules on the uropodal diaeresis (>15), long and plumose terminal setae on the telson clearly longer than lateral ones, and a long subrectangular endopod of the first male pleopod with a short appendix on the subdistal outer margin.