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Yeah, I know :oops: I wish they would put the Latin name and whatever common name, at least you would have a chance of finding out if it's the creature you wanted. I talk to the fish store owner, he says the list he receives isn't always clear, often he has to take a gamble that what is listed is ...

Amano shrimp are often called "algae eating shrimp." The new and interesting names that wholesalers come up with certainly don't help anyone identify fish or inverts.

ahem, ironically "Amano shrimp" is exactly a "…new and interesting names that wholesalers come up with…"

:-D

Definitely not Atyopsis moluccensis.

excellent photograph *thumbsup*

I absolutely agree

the size difference between "our" malayan and the pic in that german paper is rather big. I'll go dig up one of my egg-bearing malayan pics see if it is something you also see.

maybe more than one species was dumped into Hawaiian rivers but nobody knew (since they look so similar) ?

precisely, if you have specimens that have large eggs, you're quite sure you are looking at a different species hence aff. is appropriate in that case. I say this because you said "...they are all C. cf. xxx, I don't buy it..."

I am agreeing with you, they should be aff. and not cf. :-D

I have ...

--I've seen both varieites and morphologically they seem to be at least *very similar* if not essentially the same. Here are some pictures of the "malayan" shrimp that is bred and distributed in Germany:

http://www.wirbellose.de/arten.cgi?action=show&artNo=275

Here is a report about them and ...

not entirely. colour and pattern is ONE possible indicative traits amongst all others such as morphological forms. unfortunately taxonomy many times cannot rely on colours and patterns as the preserved type specimens invariably loses their colours and pattern. same goes for fish.

however, your ...

that's the problem, they prefer their specimens dead and hence there is no colour to describe

not to mention the fact that they do not consider colours and patterns to be indicative traits.

The other question is if all the C. serratirostris are *really* C. serratirostris. There has not been a revision in Caridina for *very* long time.

Mustafa

haha the reason I am saying this is because I have received my copy of Fauna Sinica Vol 36 on Atyidae 2004 ! :smt081

So it says here in pg ...

Mustafa wrote:

hwchoy wrote:what on earth is a ninja shrimp?

Look in my Shrimp Varieties page. It's Caridina serratirostris from Japan.

but C. serratirostris is not exclusive to Japan. I'll go check the distribution tonight.

what on earth is a ninja shrimp?

anyway there has been a shrimp-craze since two years back when we started mass-ordering tiger shrimps (with lovely orange head and tail), we paid S$2.50 each and minimum order of 50 pcs.

Whoever told you this has no idea what he/she is talking about.

I actually agree with you. :-D

although I should add that this shrimp has a very interesting swimming behaviour. It hovers slowly with the red nose pointed downwards and look kind of like pixies flitting around the forest (if you ...