Caridina brevicarpalis, 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 : 8

Caridina brevicarpalis species group

Diagnosis

Moderately robust morphology, with a long rostrum (passing end of antennular peduncle), always armed on the dorsal margin, without apical teeth, antennal spine below the suborbital angle, a long antennular peduncle (more than 0.70 times as long as carapace), pterygostomian margin subrectangular, stout legs, the carpus of the first pereiopod often deeply excavated, sixth abdominal somite about half of carapace length, high pre-anal carina bearing a spine, few spinules on the uropodal diaeresis (around 10), few, medium to short and smooth terminal setae on the telson; a subtriangular endopod of the first male pleopod with an appendix on the subdistal outer margin which reaches beyond the distal end of the endopod with most of its length.