Caridina holthuisi

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| image = Caridina holthuisi.png

| image_caption = Living specimen of Caridina holthuisi

| status = EN

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=von Rintelen, K. |author2=Wowor, D. |author3=Klotz, W. |date=2019 |title=Caridina holthuisi |volume=2019 |page=e.T197808A139140114 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T197808A139140114.en |access-date=27 February 2023}}

| genus = Caridina

| species = holthuisi

| authority = von Rintelen & Cai, 2009{{Cite journal |author=Kristina von Rintelen & Yixiong Cai |year=2008 |title=Radiation of endemic species flocks in ancient lakes: systematic revision of the freshwater shrimp Caridina H Milne Edwards, 1837 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Atyidae) from the ancient lakes of Sulawesi, Indonesia, with the description of eight new species |journal=Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |volume=57 |issue=2 |pages=343–452 |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/57/57rbz343-452.pdf |access-date=2023-02-28 |archive-date=2011-12-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111226155626/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/57/57rbz343-452.pdf |url-status=dead }}

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Caridina holthuisi is a species of freshwater shrimp in the family Atyidae, endemic to the Malili lake system in Sulawesi, Indonesia. It can be found in Lake Towuti, Lake Matano, and Lake Mahalona, as well as the Petea river. It is named in honour of Dutch carcinologist, Lipke Holthuis.{{Cite journal |author=Kristina von Rintelen & Yixiong Cai |year=2008 |title=Radiation of endemic species flocks in ancient lakes: systematic revision of the freshwater shrimp Caridina H Milne Edwards, 1837 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Atyidae) from the ancient lakes of Sulawesi, Indonesia, with the description of eight new species |journal=Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |volume=57 |issue=2 |pages=343–452 |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/57/57rbz343-452.pdf |access-date=2023-02-28 |archive-date=2011-12-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111226155626/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/57/57rbz343-452.pdf |url-status=dead }}

Habitat and ecology

Caridina holthuisi can be primarily found in shallow water amongst leaf litter and other soft substrates.

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Category:Crustaceans described in 2009

Category:Atyidae

Category:Endemic freshwater shrimp of Sulawesi

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