Species Caridina nilotica (P. Roux, 1833)

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• Pelias niloticus Roux, J.L.F.P. 1833. Lettre relative à divers Coquilles, Crustacés, Insectes, Reptiles et Oiseaux, Observés en Égypte. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris 28(1): 72-77 [73].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Cairo, Egypt.
• Caridina nilotica typica Bouvier, E.-L 1925. Recherches sur la morphologie, les variations et la distribution systématique des crevettes d'eau douce de la famille des Atyidés. Encyclopédie Entomologique 4: 1-365 [146; fig. 308].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Chace, F.A., Jr 1997. The Caridean Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907–1910, Part 7: Families Atyidae, Eugonatonotidae, Rhynchocinetidae, Bathypalaemonellidae, Processidae, and Hippolytidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 587: i-v, 1-106 [17]
• De Grave, S. & Fransen, C.H.J.M. 2011. Carideorum Catalogus: The recent species of the Dendrobrachiate, Stenopodidean, Procarididean and Caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 85(9): 195-589, figs 1-59 [277]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Northern Australian, Indo-Pacific region.

Ecological Descriptors

Brackish water, freshwater.

General References

Davie, P. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Phyllocarida, Hoplocarida, Eucarida (Part 1). In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.3A. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xii 551 pp. [226] (the status of the numerous species and subspecies of this complex is still under debate; a much more extensive, though contentious, synonymy was given by Holthuis (1980: 74))

Holthuis, L.B. 1980. FAO species catalogue. Vol. 1. Shrimps and prawns of the world. An annotated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries. Exploration du Parc National de l'Upemba. Mission G. F. de Witte 1(125): 1-261

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