Caridina profundicola

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| image = Caridina_profundicola.png

| image_caption = living specimen of Caridina profundicola

| status = CR

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref ={{cite iucn |author=von Rintelen, K. |date=2019 |title=Caridina profundicola |volume=2019 |page=e.T197653A139141151 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T197653A139141151.en |access-date=23 February 2023}}

| genus = Caridina

| species = profundicola

| authority = von Rintelen & Cai, 2009{{cite journal |author=von Rintelen, K. |author2=Cai, Y. |date=2009 |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 |volume=57 |issue=2 |pages=343–452 |access-date=1 February 2023 |url=https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/app/uploads/2017/06/57rbz343-452.pdf}}

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Caridina profundicola is species of fresh water shrimp endemic to Lake Towuti on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.{{cite journal |author=von Rintelen, K. |author2=Cai, Y. |date=2009 |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 |volume=57 |issue=2 |pages=343–452 |access-date=1 February 2023 |url=https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/app/uploads/2017/06/57rbz343-452.pdf}}

Habitat and ecology

C. profundicola is found in deep (roughly three meters or deeper) parts of lake Towuti, where it lives between submerged bolders and is often found with Caridina spinata.{{cite journal |author=von Rintelen, K. |author2=Cai, Y. |date=2009 |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 |volume=57 |issue=2 |pages=343–452 |access-date=1 February 2023 |url=https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/app/uploads/2017/06/57rbz343-452.pdf}}

Threats

Like many of the shrimp from the lakes of Sulawesi, C. profundicola faces a number of threats, including non-native predators, pollution, and the damning of waterways for hydroelectric power.{{cite iucn |author=von Rintelen, K. |date=2019 |title=Caridina profundicola |volume=2019 |page=e.T197653A139141151 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T197653A139141151.en |access-date=23 February 2023}}

References

Category:Crustaceans described in 2009

Category:Atyidae

Category:Endemic freshwater shrimp of Sulawesi