Neocaridinafonticulata, a new land-locked freshwater shrimp from Hengchun Peninsula, Taiwan (Decapoda, Caridea, Atyidae)

Hsi-Te Shih; Yixiong Cai; Yuh-Wen Chiu

doi:10.3897/zookeys.817.29332

Neocaridinafonticulata, a new land-locked freshwater shrimp from Hengchun Peninsula, Taiwan (Decapoda, Caridea, Atyidae)

Zookeys. 2019 Jan 15:(817):11-23. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.817.29332. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Hsi-Te Shih¹, Yixiong Cai², Yuh-Wen Chiu³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Life Science and Research Center for Global Change Biology, National Chung Hsing University, 250, Kuo Kuang Road, Taichung 402, Taiwan National Chung Hsing University Taichung Taiwan.
² National Biodiversity Centre, National Parks Board, 1 Cluny Road, Singapore 259569, Republic of Singapore National Biodiversity Centre Singapore Singapore.
³ Center for Research in Water Science and Technology, and Department of Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, No. 1, University Road, Tainan City 701, Taiwan National Cheng Kung University Tainan Taiwan.

Abstract

A new species of land-locked freshwater shrimp, Neocaridinafonticulata sp. n. (Atyidae), is described from Kenting, Hengchun Peninsula, Pingtung County, southern Taiwan. This new species can be distinguished from its congeners by rostrum structure, pereiopods, and male first and second pleopods. The molecular evidence of mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) also supports the establishment of a new species. This is the third endemic species of Neocaridina known from Taiwan.

Keywords: Neocaridina fonticulata; mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I; morphology; new species.