Deep into darkness: the first stygobitic species of freshwater shrimp of the genus Caridina (Crustacea: Decapoda: Atyidae) from Northern Vietnam
Keyword(s):
The first stygobitic species of atyid freshwater shrimps from Vietnam is described from Cuc Phuong National Park, Northern Vietnam. Caridina thachlam sp. nov. can be distinguished from its congeners by a suite of morphological characters such as strongly reduced eyes without eyestalk, short and almost unarmed rostrum and slender pereiopods. Molecular phylogenetic data from the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) and 16S ribosomal RNA genes also support the distinctiveness of the new species from all other species that we have examined.
2019 ◽
Vol 28
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pp. 258-265
2013 ◽
Vol 103
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pp. 451-457
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