Caridina papuana Nobili, 1905

Caridina papuana Nobili, 1905 View in CoL

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 View in CoL —Roux, 1917 [ 85]: 591; 1928 [ 47]: 204

Caridina weberi papuana View in CoL —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 View in CoL — 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]).