Caridina gracilirostris De Man 1892

Caridina gracilirostris species group Diagnosis Slender morphology with a very long and upcurved rostrum (twice the carapace length), armed with few dorsal teeth (fewer than 10), apical teeth present, the antennal spine ventral to the inferior orbital angle, a long antennular peduncle (more than 0.70 times as long as carapace), pterygostomian margin rounded, segments of walking legs slender, a typical dorsal hump over the third abdominal somite, a long sixth abdominal somite (always more than half of carapace length), a small pre-anal carina bearing or not an acute spine, few spinules on the uropodal diaeresis (>10), very few short terminal setae on the telson, endopod of the first male pleopod subtriangular mostly without an appendix, but when it is present, on the subdistal outer margin, reaches beyond distal end of endopod by a short length.Published as part of Mazancourt, Valentin de, Boseto, David, Marquet, Gerard & Keith, Philippe, 2020, Solomon's Gold Mine: Description or redescription of 24 species of Caridina (Crustacea: Decapoda: Atyidae) freshwater shrimps from the Solomon Islands, including 11 new species, pp. 1-86 in European Journal of Taxonomy 696 on page 11, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.696, http://zenodo.org/record/397343