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| Caridina multidentata | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Infraorder: | Caridea |
| Family: | Atyidae |
| Genus: | Caridina |
| Species: | C. multidentata |
| Binomial name | |
| Caridina multidentata Stimpson, 1860 |
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Caridina multidentata is a species of shrimp found in Japan and parts of Korea and Taiwan. It has a translucent body covered with reddish brown points of ± 0.3 mm on their sides which may look like a broken line of reddish colour. The dorsal surface has a white stripe that runs from the head to the tail and the eyes are black. Females are easily distinguished from males from the more elongated lower row of dots lining the body. According to different sources, Caridina multidentata was introduced into the world of aquaria by Takashi Amano in the early 1980s. They are usually used in an aquarium because they feed primarily on algae, thus cleaning the aquarium if in large numbers. Caridina multidentata was previously known to aquarists as Caridina japonica but was renamed Caridina multidentata following a study in 2006.[1][2]
[edit] References
- ^ Matt Clarke (September 21, 2006). "Amano shrimp gets new name". Practical Fishkeeping. Archived from the original on February 12, 2009. http://web.archive.org/web/20090212172341/http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/pages/item.php?news=1078.
- ^ Yixiong Cai, Peter K. L. Ng, Shigemitsu Shokita & Kiyoshi Satake (2006). "On the species of Japanese atyid shrimps (Decapoda: Caridea) described by William Stimpson (1860)" (PDF). Journal of Crustacean Biology 26 (3): 392–419. JSTOR 4094124. http://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/25084/25084.pdf.
[edit] External links
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- Amano shrimp (Caridina multidentata), Aquarium Wiki
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