Caridina papuana Nobili, 1905

de Mazancourt, Valentin, Freitag, Hendrik, von Rintelen, Kristina, Manuel-Santos, Marivene & von Rintelen, Thomas, 2023, Updated Checklist of the Freshwater Shrimps (Decapoda: Caridea: Atyidae) of Mindoro Island, the Philippines, with a Description of a New Species of Caridina, Arthropoda 1 (4), pp. 374-397 : 389-390

Caridina papuana Nobili, 1905

Caridina Weberi var. papuana Nobili, 1905 [ 84]: 481, Pl. 12, fig. 1a,b ( Type locality: Small forest stream, Stephansort, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea).

Caridina Weberi var. papuana —Bouvier, 1925 [ 72]: 246.

Caridina weberi var. papuana —Roux, 1917 [ 85]: 591; 1928 [ 47]: 204

Caridina weberi papuana —Roux, 1934 [ 86]: 221.

Caridina cf. weberi papuana — de Mazancourt et al., 2017 [ 74]: fig. 4.

Caridina sp. Sol 1 —Page et al., 2007 [ 73]: 649, fig. 2.

Caridina papuana — de Mazancourt et al., 2019 [ 87]: 166, figs. 2–5; 2020 [ 65]: 46, figs. 2N, 14, 26E.

Habitat: This species is found in the middle to lower course of rivers.

Distribution: On Mindoro: Localities no. 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, and 14. Papua New Guinea ( Papua, New Hanover, and Manus), Indonesia ( Papua, Sulawesi, and Ceram), the Solomon Islands ( Choiseul), the Philippines (Mindoro), and Taiwan.

Remarks:

This species is reported herein for the first time from the Philippines. De Mazancourt et al. (2020) [ 65] recently re-described this species in detail and designated a lectotype among its syntypes.

This species has been assessed as Least Concern for the IUCN Red List (De Grave et al., 2013 [ 88]).