Hello Zhaoliang! You're welcome.zlguo wrote:Thank Werner and Mustafa for trust me!
Yes, I working on the Chinese ”bumblebee” and ”tiger” shrimps.
Regards recently information, I can ascertain above 10 species bumblebee shrimps.
Wow, that's exactly what I had suspected. I could identify at least 5 different variations among the bumblebee shrimp imported to the US. 10 or more variations are definitely possible.
Interesting. Those are called "bee shrimp" in the shrimp hobby.From the systematic, bumblebee shrimps include two types, one is possess of longer stylocerite, which reaching beyond end of basal segment of antennular peduncle, such as Caridina serrata Stimpson, 1860;
Those are the various "bumblebee" shrimp in the shrimp hobby. I would not be surprised if some of them have not been scientifically described yet.the other is s possess of shorter stylocerite, which not reaching end of basal segment of antennular peduncle, such as C. huananensis Liang, 2004. Maybe there are a few new species to science.
Thanks Zhaoliang. I am looking forward to a possible paper on the "tiger" shrimp and/or C. cantonensis. I hope, one day, there will be more clarity about the scientific names of many shrimp species kept in the hobby, including the southern chinese ones. Right now it's all just a big mess, unfortunately.But the ”tiger” shrimp, from my collections, belong the C. cantonensis Yu, 1938, although this species seems to be a rather variable in morphological characters (as Werner’s observe). The review paper maybe publishes in future.